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LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION SEEKS PROBE OF LEAKS ABOUT INVESTIGATIONS INTO TRUMP CAMPAIGN TIES TO RUSSIA

(LEESBURG, VA, April 27, 2017)...Landmark Legal Foundation announced today that it has asked the inspectors general of six federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to investigate dozens of illegal leaks to journalists of classified information relating to electronic surveillance of individuals associated with the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump.

The Foundation filed official complaints seeking investigations with the inspectors general of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of State, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), (through its parent agency, the Department of Justice), related to the handling of warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), connected to investigations into possible ties between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and foreign interests. Warrants issued by the FISC are classified under provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

“It’s a felony to even disclose that the Court has issued a warrant, let alone reveal details of an investigation conducted under that warrant,” explained Pete Hutchison, executive vice president and general counsel for Landmark. “Over the past several months there have been dozens of leaks of classified information apparently by federal intelligence and law enforcement officials to journalists for what appear to be political purposes. We’re asking the inspectors general of the Justice Department (for the FBI), the CIA, the NSA, DIA, the State Department, and the Treasury Department, to conduct full investigations into whether these leaks are coming from their departments.”