Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said the federal employees leaking sensitive information to the press are committing treason.

Gingrich echoed remarks made by DHS Secretary John Kelly last week.

.@newtgingrich: "The amount of leaking coming out of the intelligence community is staggering. It's all illegal, people should go to jail." pic.twitter.com/ZUct7xOelJ — Fox News (@FoxNews) May 31, 2017

"People should go to jail," Gingrich said, adding that such leakers are "frenzied" to stop the Trump administration.

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Discussing allegations that the Trump administration established "back-channel" relations with the Russians, Gingrich said such an action is normal.

He said that President Ike Eisenhower used "back-channel" communications with India in order to bring an end to the Korean War.

He added that President John Kennedy used a Russian "back-channel" during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"[That] may have saved us from nuclear war," he said.

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