An IRS employee accused of illegally leaking former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s bank information to Stormy Daniels’ lawyer was sentenced to five years probation Friday after pleading guilty to one count of disclosing unauthorized documents.
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Western governments including the United States said Tuesday that a cache of leaked documents proves that Chinese authorities are engaged in massive and systemic repression of Muslims and other minorities in western China.
Read moreHundreds of leaked Iranian intelligence reports reveal the depth of Tehran’s influence in neighboring, protest-torn Iraq, The New York Times and The Intercept reported Monday.
Read moreAn investigation that found human error caused the leak of California State Bar exam topics this past July also revealed the agency was ill-equipped to handle the fallout.
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Eager for changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Donald Trump toyed with issuing an executive order to close parts of the VA health system without consulting Congress, according to an upcoming book by his former VA secretary.
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A Defense Intelligence Agency analyst was charged Wednesday with providing journalists top secret and classified national defense information, including secrets related to an unnamed foreign country’s weapons systems.
Read morePope Francis named one of Italy’s leading anti-Mafia prosecutors as president of the Vatican’s criminal tribunal Thursday, just days after a new scandal erupted over alleged financial wrongdoing in the heart of the Holy See.
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The White House severely restricted distribution of memos detailing President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, after embarrassing leaks of his conversations early in his tenure, a former White House official said.
Read moreOverruling prosecutors’ objections that the accused WikiLeaker’s former workplace is classified, a federal judge on Thursday ruled that defense attorneys for ex-CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte should be allowed to visit the alleged scene of his crime.
Read moreThe suspected source of the biggest disclosure of CIA files in agency history, accused WikiLeaker Joshua Schulte has had an unusual case for a number of reasons. His defense attorney complained in court Wednesday that the agency’s intense secrecy has led to a first in her decades-long career.
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A watchdog for the Justice Department released a critical report Thursday about how former FBI Director James Comey made the press aware of his interactions with President Donald Trump.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court has hired retired Justice Arthur Scotland and his law firm Nielsen Merksamer to probe the State Bar of California’s leak of exam essay topics.
Read moreAn Internal Revenue Service staffer pleaded guilty Wednesday to leaking confidential details about former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen to Michael Avenatti, the former attorney of adult film star Stormy Daniels who claims to have had an affair with Trump before he became president.
Read moreWaving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans jammed a highway Monday to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a crisis triggered by the leak of offensive, obscenity-laden chat messages between him and his advisers.
Read morePuerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek re-election or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party.
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Bulgarian police have detained a suspect who is allegedly behind the hacking of the national revenue agency, an attack that leaked the personal and financial data of millions of Bulgarians and companies.
Read moreA U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador’s blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite predecessor Barack Obama.
Read moreBritish police opened a criminal investigation on Friday into the leaking of confidential diplomatic memos that cost the U.K. ambassador in Washington his job.
Read moreBritain’s ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday, just days after diplomatic cables criticizing President Donald Trump caused embarrassment to two countries that often celebrate having a “special relationship.”
Read morePrime Minister Theresa May backed Britain’s ambassador to the United States on Tuesday after President Trump cut off contact with him following the leak of diplomatic cables that branded Trump’s administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
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