The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: 240B on June 25, 2017, 05:46:46 pm
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Axios
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
6/24/2017
Mike Pompeo was the first guest on Hugh Hewitt's new MSNBC show. As CIA director, Pompeo was brought on the show to answer vital questions about intelligence and how the White House plans on handling their continued issue with leakers revealing info.
"We, and I would say all of President Trump's government, is incredibly focused on both stopping leaks of any kind from any agency, and when they happen pursuing them with incredible vigor," Pompeo said, adding, "and I think we'll have some successes both on the deterrence side, that is stopping them from happening, as well as on punishing those who we catch who have done it."
Pompeo argued there's an almost obsession with leakers:
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