Despite threatened crackdown, few leakers caught under Trump and Jeff Sessions

Published December 30, 2017 5:01am ET



With his job performance reviewed negatively on Twitter by his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions convened a press conference to declare a crackdown on illegal leaks to the press.

“We are taking a stand. This culture of leaking must stop,” Sessions said at the August event, shortly after President Trump fumed that the attorney general was taking a “VERY weak” approach to disclosures of classified information.

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