OPINION_ Jason Chaffetz: Lawbreaking FBI leaker must be prosecuted – Justice Department fails to do so

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Jason Chaffetz: Lawbreaking FBI leaker must be prosecuted – Justice Department fails to do so

By Jason Chaffetz | Fox News


Attorney General Barr acknowledges the DOJ has 'multiple criminal leak investigations underway'
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley asks Attorney General William Barr about leaks to the media during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.


While the predictable news conference with Special Counsel Robert Mueller made headlines this week for repeating what we already knew, a bigger story from the Department of Justice broke that got far too little attention.

In a Wednesday report released by the Inspector General for the Department of Justice, we learned that the OIG was able to identify a former deputy assistant director at the FBI who violated the law by leaking sealed court documents to the media, engaging in repeated unauthorized contacts with journalists, and accepting a gift from the media.


BARR SAYS DOJ HAS 'MULTIPLE LEAK' PROBES UNDERWAY


We already knew leaking and unauthorized media contacts were a cultural and systemic problem at the FBI. A June 2018 OIG Report revealed the extent of the practice and provided a graphic illustration:

Although FBI policy strictly limits the employees who are authorized to speak to the media, we found that this policy appeared to be widely ignored during the period we reviewed. We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters. The large number of FBI employees who were in contact with journalists during this time period impacted our ability to identify the sources of leaks.

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