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The difference between illegal leaks and inconvenient leaks
The Justice Department promised on Friday a crackdown on leaks of classified government information to the press, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowing to triple the number of probes into leaks. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Jeffrey Smith, former general counsel for the CIA, and The New York Times' James Risen about what constitutes a problematic leak and why they occur.
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