Information security

National Security Official: 'Significant Damage' From Classified Leaks

The man in charge of internal security of the nation's intelligence services says there is so much leaking of classified information right now that "we’re not dealing with it." Bill Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center made the admission in a recent interview with the Cipher Brief, a website dedicated to national and global security issues.

Evanina's startling disclosure came in response to a question about how the federal government is dealing with a "deluge of leaks," something President Trump has often publicly complained about during his first eight months in office. Evanina said:

Honestly, we’re not dealing with it in terms of, there’s so much right now. We’re really having a difficult time sifting through what is a leak, a political leak, versus what is an actual unauthorized disclosure of classified information. And that is where my world sits. My world is the unauthorized disclosures of classified information, and there’s a lot of that.