Mark Meadows fed specific information to suspected leakers: Report

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Washington Examiner

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly put a plan into motion to root out leakers.

 

Meadows, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina, aims to identify White House staffers who make unauthorized disclosures to the media by providing specific bits of information that he can trace back to individual staffers, according to Axios. Thus far, Meadows has caught one person responsible for a minor leak. 

"Meadows told me he was doing that. I don't know if it ever worked," one former White House official told Axios's Jonathan Swan. 

President Trump is reportedly frustrated with two recent leaks in particular: one involving intelligence on Russia paying bounties to Taliban-connected militants in Afghanistan to kill U.S. soldiers, and another about Trump being rushed down to a bunker as protesters gathered outside the White House.