Dozens of pages of classified. But they have been intermittently used since the 1990s to intimidate and scare sources from talking to reporters, maschke said A 1999 pentagon report said it was expanding the program to use polygraphs on defense personnel “if classified information they had access to has been leaked.” In 2013, edward snowden leaked a tranche of intelligence documents to the guardian and the washington post, showing that the us government was illegally collecting citizens' phone data. The fbi on tuesday acknowledged that it has launched an inquiry into how classified material recently came to be posted on telegram “the fbi is investigating the alleged leak of classified documents and working closely with our partners in the department of defense and intelligence community,” the fbi said in a statement.
A handfulof documents found by the fbi during their raid of president donald trump's palm beach country club were so sensitive that even a senior justice department official didn’t have.
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