President Donald Trump called West Wing leakers “traitors and cowards” on Monday as a dustup over a White House aide’s crass remark about Arizona Sen. John McCain extended into a fifth day.
Read moreIn a series of motions filed Monday night, an attorney for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort argue that media reports featuring leaks from anonymous government officials have spoiled his chances at a fair trial and violated his constitutional rights.
Read moreA former FBI counterterrorism agent pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of leaking classified documents to a news reporter, but says he did it to fight FBI racism against minorities.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Friday issued a full pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice.
Read moreA judge is weighing whether to suppress the statement of a woman accused of leaking National Security Agency secrets because federal agents did not warn her that her words might be used against her and that she could wait for a lawyer.
Read moreUnder pressure over his handling of abuse allegations against a top aide, White House chief of staff John Kelly on Friday ordered sweeping changes in how the White House clears staff members to gain access to classified information, acknowledging that the administration “must do better” in how it handles security clearances.
Read moreSwitzerland’s market regulator said Thursday it has banned the Swiss affiliate of Russia’s Gazprombank from taking new private clients over money-laundering concerns over a 10-year period that emerged from the Panama Papers leak.
Read moreYears after up to 20 CIA sources were killed in China, a former officer known to have kept handwritten notes on such classified information appeared Tuesday before a federal judge.
Read moreAn email sent to President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. before the 2016 election included a decryption key for hacked documents that the website WikiLeaks had made public a day earlier.
Read moreAn Italian journalist who was put on trial by the Vatican for divulging confidential documents is coming out with a new book promising to reveal fresh secrets about sex, crimes and money in the Holy See.
Read moreEmployees at the Environmental Protection Agency are attending mandatory training sessions this week to reinforce their compliance with laws and rules against leaking classified or sensitive government information.
Read moreIn the nearly 100 years since enactment of the 1918 Espionage Act, the government has chosen – out of respect for press freedom – not to prosecute journalists. That harmony skipped a beat last week, however, when the Justice Department announced it would review media-subpoena policies to address the leaky faucet of classified leaks.
Read moreThe Justice Department is making changes to its policies on subpoenaing news organizations as part of its crackdown on government leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday.
Read moreA federal appeals court on Thursday affirmed all but one conviction of a former CIA officer serving prison time for leaking government secrets to a newspaper reporter.
Read moreAffirming the tax-fraud conviction of Chaka Fattah Jr., the son of a former congressman who shares his name and incarcerated status, the Third Circuit said a leak of the investigation to the press did not violate Fattah’s rights.
Read moreThe Justice Department announced Monday that it arrested a federal contractor from Georgia over charges that she sent classified information to a news outlet.
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Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year’s presidential election, according to a classified government intelligence report leaked Monday.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department and “other relevant agencies to get to the bottom of leaks that he says “pose a grave threat to our national security.”
Read moreConvicted spy Jonathan Pollard earned scorn from the Second Circuit on Wednesday for hinging his appeal on his supposedly failing memory of the classified secrets he sold to Israel 32 years ago.
Read moreConcluding her prison sentence for unleashing a flood of U.S. military and diplomatic documents seven years ago, WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning walked out of prison Wednesday into a new era of classified-document leaks.
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