Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly preparing to announce a series of criminal investigations related to repeated disclosures of sensitive information to the press.
The Washington Post reports that the Department of Justice will publicize criminal leak investigations related to the unauthorized exposure of classified information to reporters in the coming days. It is not yet clear that these investigations are related to leaks pertaining to the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
A second Justice Department source told Fox News that the leak investigations have been underway for several weeks.
The report comes as the relationship between the president and the attorney general has reached its greatest point of strain. President Donald Trump has disparaged Sessions on Twitter in early morning tweets every day this week.
ABC News reports that Sessions’ chief of staff, Jody Hunt, has informed White House chief of staff Reince Priebus that the attorney general has no plans to resign. The post is the culmination of Sessions’ professional career, which began as a federal prosecutor and continued in Congress as a stalwart of law-and-order politics.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that the president and the attorney general have not spoken this week during a Wednesday briefing.
A Department of Justice spokesman has not yet responded to TheDCNF’s inquiries.
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