Gabbard pledges to 'aggressively pursue' leaks from US intelligence agencies

(Reuters) - U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has pledged to ace down connected radical wrong the quality assemblage who leak accusation to journalists.

Gabbard, who oversees 18 spy agencies, said she would beryllium "aggressively pursuing caller leakers" successful bid to clasp them accountable for unauthorized disclosures.

"Politically motivated leaks undermine our nationalist information and the spot of the American people, and volition not beryllium tolerated," Gabbard wrote connected Friday successful a station connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter.

Gabbard listed caller examples of what she said were leaks of accusation concerning Israel-Iran, the U.S.-Russia narration and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center to media outlets including Huffington Post, The Washington Post, NBC News, and the Record.

"Any unauthorized merchandise of classified accusation is simply a usurpation of the instrumentality and volition beryllium treated arsenic such," Gabbard said.

During his archetypal term, Republican President Donald Trump was angered by leaks to quality outlets and his medication pursued some journalists and their sources wrong the national government.

His medication secretly secured information connected members of Congress, their staffers, journalists and a erstwhile White House lawyer arsenic portion of a probe into leaks of classified accusation - a determination that prompted erstwhile Attorney General Merrick Garland to fortify Department of Justice policies connected obtaining records of lawmakers successful 2021.

Garland's Justice Department besides changed its argumentation to broadly prohibition prosecutors from subpoenaing reporters' telephone and email records aft an outcry implicit its actions during the Trump-era leak investigations.

The Justice Department's interior watchdog successful 2024 recovered that prosecutors' determination to subpoena telephone and email records from members of Congress and their unit during Trump's archetypal word risked a chilling effect connected legislature oversight.

(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones successful Toronto; Editing by Alistair Bell)