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The former national security adviser mike flynn was really running what i have come to understand as a second intelligence gathering operation within the white house so he could provide a different set of ice and ears by looking at the raw data himself. i think that is where, based on my reporting, where we got the tension between the ic and the national security team. just as a final point, if i could, because i know we've not got a lot of time today. but the president talked ab these leaks being illegal. and people should really start to focus on these two statutes 793 and 798 because these ...

Intelligence agency and strategically leaked to do maximum damage to mike flynn. we know the long knives had come out for him, this looks like a strategic plan. i'm not excusing the part that was miscommunications and dishonesty but that was between president trump, vice president pence and mike flynn. i was specifically saying that the federal statute that is violated is 18 usc 798, makes it clear that it is a felony, ten years and of penitentiary for communicating in a classified information that is retrieved through our signal intelligence communications. >> sean: i have that in front of me...

Maximum damage to mike flynn. we know the long knives had come out for him, this looks like a strategic plan. i'm not excusing the part that was miscommunications and dishonesty but that was between president trump, vice president pence and mike flynn. i was specifically saying that the federal statute that is violated is 18 u.s. c 798, makes it clear that it is a felony, ten years and of penitentiary for communicating in a classified information that is retrieved through our signal intelligence communications. >> sean: i have that in front of me, the code, "whoever knowingly and willfully com...

Go through from a legal aspect of the intelligence leaks that are going on here. how it would violate the espionage act, 18 u.s. code 798 which we will get into in more detail. tell me what is going on with these intelligence leaks which we know are illegal and is at the bigger story? >> it is now clear from published information that people who had authorized access to signaled intelligence under the espionage act, cryptographic intelligence, telephone intercepts, wiretaps, have given that information in violation of the law to news organizations and other parties who are not authorizedo rece...

Committee continue his investigation, accelerate if he can and have access to those transcripts and find out the source of them, the source of them is more important than the substance of them. the substance of them that we think is there doesn't indicate there's a violation of the federal law but this source, the leakage clearly does. that's a violation of 18 usc 798 and the culprits would be facing a potential ten-year prison charge. i don't know why they would have a spiteful motive they would expose themselves to charges like that especially with incoming attorney general for the first tim...