(Reuters) – The US director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has undertaken to propose people within the secret service community who forward information to journalists.
Gabard, who monitors 18 espionage agencies, said that she would “pursue the recent leakage aggressively” in order to hold them accountable for non -authorized disclosures.
“Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people and are not tolerated,” Gabard wrote on Friday in a post on X that was previously known as Twitter.
Gabard listed the recent examples that they had information about Israel-Iran, the relationship between US Russia and the National Spye and Security Center for Media such as Huffington Post, Washington Post, NBC News and the Recording.
“Every non -authorized publication of classified information is a violation of the law and is treated as such,” said Gabard.
During his first term, Republican President Donald Trump was annoyed by Leck's news agencies, and his government pursued both journalists and her sources in the federal government.
His administration secretly secured data on congress members, its employees, journalists and a former lawyer of the White House as part of an investigation into leak of classified information – a step that caused the former Attorney General Merrick Garland to strengthen guidelines of the Ministry of Justice in 2021.
The Ministry of Justice of Garland also changed its directive to ban prosecutors after an outcry on the actions during the leak examinations from the Trump era.
In 2024, the internal wax dog of the Ministry of Justice stated that the decision of the public prosecutor's office, telephone and e -mail records of congress members and their employees during the first term of term of trump risked a terrifying influence on the supervision of the congress.
(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Editor of Alistair Bell)
