federal felony

US President Trump – as I speculated yesterday he might do – has signalled today that a leak investigation will be launched to track down and punish the leakers from within the US intelligence community who have been working overtime since before he was elected to undermine and delegitimise him.

The ouster of General Michael Flynn, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, marks the moment when the campaign waged against Donald Trump by certain members of the US intelligence community tipped over into outright illegality.
Moreover the law that was broken is a very serious one, and if the case is followed up – which it may be – and if the people involved are caught – which they might be – they could face long prison sentences.