126 leaks in Trump first 125 days.
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT IN THE FACE OF
EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND MEDIA SUPPRESSION:
THE CASE STUDY OF CROSSFIRE HURRICANE
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT IN THE FACE OF
EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND MEDIA SUPPRESSION:
THE CASE STUDY OF CROSSFIRE HURRICANE
The final one I want to talk about is what we uncovered in
our July 2017 report on leaks, and the overall summary of that
is that report showed 125 leaks in the first 126 days of the
Trump administration; 62 of them would have been defined as
``harming national security,'' according to the Obama
Administration's definition of that. And that 62 compares with,
I think, eight or nine during both the Bush and the Obama
Administrations. Just an explosion of leaks. By the way, those
leaks are what drove and sustained the false narrative of
Russian collusion with the Trump campaign that was proven
totally false but was the center of the Crossfire Hurricane
investigation and then a Special Counsel, and, quite honestly,
morphed into an impeachment trial here in the Senate.
Now, a common element of each of these scandals is the
abuse of executive branch power. If this misconduct remains
hidden or goes unpunished, it represents a serious threat to
our individual freedoms and our democratic republic. I do not
make that statement lightly.
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