WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats just held a news conference on leaks of classified information. See C-SPAN video.

Jesselyn Radack, director of the Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts, stated today:

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"The Justice Department's crackdown on leaks wrongly targets and punishes national security whistleblowers, who have no meaningful internal channels for dissent or meaningful protection from retaliation. The crackdown is a backdoor way of attacking journalists on whom the public relies to be informed about government misconduct.



"Insider Threat Programs have proven discriminatory against legitimate whistleblowers and foster a destructive, McCarthy-esque culture within the federal government.



"Attorney General Sessions fails to distinguish between whistleblowing in the public interest and other leaks and fails to address the rampant over-classification problem plaguing the national security community."



Background: see statement from April from Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: "Trump Threats to WikiLeaks 'Nuclear Option' Against the First Amendment."



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For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:

Sam Husseini, (202) 421-6858, David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

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