Donald Trump is a little touchy about leaks these days and now his administration is taking action! First up, the White House Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where employees attended anti-leak classes this week. The AP writes:
Government employees who hold security clearances undergo background checks and extensive training in safeguarding classified information. Relatively few EPA employees deal with classified files, but the new training also reinforces requirements to keep “Controlled Unclassified Information” from unauthorized disclosure.
Surely EPA employees have been the ones providing a hotbed of sourcing that's taking down Trump. Seriously, dude? Start with the White House—the people you hired—because they clearly hate you. Or better yet, take a look in the mirror.
A three-page fact sheet sent to EPA employees as part of the training warned that leaks of even unclassified information could have serious consequences to national security.
“Enemies of the United States are relentless in their pursuit of information which they can exploit to harm US interests,” the document said.
Wonder if there's any warnings in there about putting foreign agents in the most powerful national security post at the White House. Or how about guidance that conferring with people working expressly against the interests of the United States is discouraged.
That could have been useful.