Rand Paul: All leakers must be found

Greg Nash

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said that those leaking information need to be found.

“We just can’t have everybody in the intelligence community, they have such power to suck up every bit of every transmission, every communication we ever made, we can’t just have them willy-nilly releasing that to the public,” Paul said on “Fox & Friends.”

“All of them have to be found, and I guarantee there’s a paper or a computer trail of who released these documents and who released these conversations.”

{mosads}President Trump and his aides often rail on those leaking information to the media or the public, an issue the Trump administration has been struggling with since the president assumed office.

The Department of Justice announced Monday it is charging Reality Leigh Winner, a federal government contractor with top security clearance, for leaking classified materials to a news outlet.

NBC News reported that Winner provided The Intercept with National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence reporting that the Russian intelligence officials launched a cyberattack in 2016 against a voting software company.
 
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Monday said he thinks people leaking classified information to the public or press should be jailed.
 
“They have got to get after these leaks,” Chaffetz told host Martha MacCallum on “The Story” on Fox. “I want people in handcuffs and I want to see people behind bars.”
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