Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said the intelligence leaks after the Manchester terror attack were “darn close to treason.”

Kelly said, “I don’t know where the leak came from. But I will tell you this, as I always do in cases like this, I immediately called my counterpart in the UK. And after offering my condolences about the attack… She immediately brought this topic up. And, if it came from the United States, it’s totally unacceptable. And I don’t know why people do these kind of things, but it’s borderline, if not over the line, of treason.”

He added, “I believe when you leak the kind of information that seems to be routinely leaked – high, high level of classification… I think it’s darn close to treason.”

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