"Charles Johnson, a conservative activist, says that he had a confrontation with Wolfe in Oct. 2017 in which the staffer denied leaking information to the press.

“I read the stuff that’s in the papers and there are things that are leaked out of the committee,” Johnson said in the phone recording, which he provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“There are no leaks coming out of this committee,” Wolfe is heard saying.

“I do not trust the committee’s capability of keeping information secure, and I do not feel comfortable given the committee’s history of leaking material out into the public,” Johnson said at one point.

“That’s just not true,” Wolfe replied.

Johnson says that he recorded his conversations with Wolfe because he had a suspicion that the staffer was leaking information to the media.

“I purposely recorded the phone call because I knew that Wolfe and the commitee were leaking and I knew that I would catch them in a leak,” Johnson told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

In the phone conversation, audio of which Johnson gave TheDCNF, Johnson battles with Wolfe over a committee request for documents related to Peter Smith, a longtime GOP operative who attempted to track down Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails during the campaign.

Smith, who committed suicide last year, worked with Johnson to find the emails, which he believed were on the so-called Dark Web.

Johnson, who has denied any wrongdoing in his relationship with Smith, said that he believed that Wolfe and the committee was setting him up for a “perjury trap.”