President Trump floats effort to get journalists to reveal who leaked low-confidence Defense Intelligence Agency report on Iran

Good news! Bravo! One has to suspect it was indeed a politically motivated leak by news media.

It is generally irresponsible and reckless to jeopardize ongoing military operations and national security by leaking such information in an open society!

This is effort by President Trump (if confirmed) is very controversial as it touches the journalist/reporter source privilege doctrine!

Did the media again act irresponsible and reckless as if e.g. suffering from the Trump Derangement Syndrome? Quite possible!

However, for the protections for the journalist/reporter source privilege to be enjoyed, the involved journalists, their supervisors and the media outlet are responsible to make every reasonable effort to properly verify/vet that the source is authentic, credible and accurate. If it is sensitive, secret  information on current military operations, the responsibility also includes political neutrality! With significant privileges come responsibilities! Someone ought to  lose such privileges when acting irresponsible and reckless or be punished!

There are also some doubts e.g. that the leaked report was e.g. timely. Perhaps, it was already outdated etc. when it was leaked, but without such a disclaimer.

Fact is that the intelligence services community of the US government is very large. It has a dozen or so agencies, probably all of them producing various reports etc. It is probably even expected that any time some agency is tasked to produce a contrarian view/report etc.

Caveat: I am not familiar with the details of the leak.

Trump floats effort to get journalists to reveal who leaked low-confidence intel report on Iran | Just The News "“We can find out. If they want to, we can find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter, ‘National security, who gave it [to you]?’ You have to do that, and I suspect we’ll be doing things like that,” Trump says"