Acting DHS secretary to accuse ICE chief at press conference of divulging immigration raids: Officials
by Anna Giaritelli
| June 27, 2019 03:32 PM
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is expected to use a press conference Thursday to blame Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its chief, Mark Morgan, for the leak of a nationwide federal immigration operation, three sources familiar with plans for the briefing told the Washington Examiner.
“He’s not going to come out and say, ‘Mark Morgan is at fault,’ but he’s going to say, ‘People could have figured out what’s going on based on what Mark Morgan said,†one person said.
Two senior administration officials said McAleenan was planning to blame the divulging of details about the 10 raids on Morgan’s oversharing information at a media roundtable on June 5, which the Washington Examiner attended with reporters from approximately 10 other outlets.
One current official said if the information had been shared or even hinted at in a way that reporters could have dug into it, the stories would have been out the following day, not 16 days later when the Washington Post reported details on the ICE operation.
But the three officials, all of whom have previously named McAleenan as the mastermind behind the leak, also pointed to holes in McAleenan’s talking points for the forthcoming press conference Thursday afternoon.
“What they can’t explain — the reporter specifically said DHS sources gave him this info,†one person said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/acting-dhs-secretary-to-accuse-ice-chief-at-press-conference-of-leaking-immigration-raids-officials
