Despite All The Bluster, The DOJ Has Not Prosecuted a Single Media Leaker

Despite numerous media reports outlining actions to smoke out leakers, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has yet to prosecute a single person accused of leaking information to the press.

Axios reported Sunday a long list of actions being taken by the Trump administration to dig up any potential leakers.

The Department of Defense (DOD) resorted to using lie detector tests on employees to find out who is making unauthorized disclosures to the press, a March memo from DOD Chief of Staff Joe Kasper revealed.

Other agencies have reportedly followed suit, with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also implementing polygraph tests, according to multiple media reports.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) referred a pair of alleged leakers to the DOJ in April, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard announced in an April tweet.

Gabbard also indicated ODNI would soon be referring a third alleged leaker to the DOJ, which they have done since, an ODNI spokesperson told the Daily Caller.

ODNI is also investigating 12 other ongoing leaks, the spokesperson told the Caller.

Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

Today, I referred two intelligence community LEAKS…

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) April 23, 2025

A month earlier, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed her department referred leakers to the DOJ.

We have identified criminal leakers within @DHSgov and are preparing to refer these perpetrators to the @TheJusticeDept for felony prosecutions.

These individuals face up to 10 years in federal prison.

We will find and root out all leakers. They will face prison time & we will… pic.twitter.com/Q4goKxXDhY

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) March 7, 2025

Yet, despite the seemingly months-long effort to reveal the leaker or leakers, the Trump administration has yet to produce a tangible result.

A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Caller when asked whether or not the DOJ had made any progress on prosecuting leakers.

The DOJ has prosecuted at least one person who leaked classified information — former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) employee Nathan Laatsch.

Rather than leaking unauthorized information to the press, however, Laatsch allegedly attempted to “transmit national defense information to an officer or agent of a foreign government,” according to the DOJ’s indictment.

A series of high-profile leaks has plagued the Trump administration. (RELATED: Reporters Grill Karoline Leavitt On How Leaked Attack Plans Weren’t Classified)

In March, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed he was added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging platform Signal where high-level administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, were discussing active military plans involving a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen.

Goldberg ultimately wound up in the group chat after former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz mistakenly add him. The culprits of other leaks, however, appear to be less obvious.

In June, CNN published a leaked preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report on U.S. strikes of Iranian nuclear facilities. CNN reported that the strikes only set Iran’s nuclear program back months, although the network initially failed to include that the assessment was made with “low confidence.”

President Trump has just called for Natasha Bertrand to be “FIRED from CNN…and then thrown out like a dog.”

Bertrand is responsible for the Hunter laptop story, and is now part of the Nuclear Site leak story pic.twitter.com/C4JMkyTWn8

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 25, 2025

Following that leak, Trump reportedly moved to limit classified information sharing with Congress as a result, Axios reported.

Most recently, Axios obtained the joint FBI and DOJ memo which concluded convicted pedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein had no client list and committed suicide.