The White House and Department of Justice have reportedly been discussing potentially throwing journalists in jail to reveal the identities of leakers and fresh White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is behind the plan.

In an Atlantic report about the exit of Susie Wiles from her chief of staff role at the White House, it was revealed that a plan to jail journalists is in consideration in the administration. Wiles reportedly pushed back on such a plan while Miller gave it his endorsement.

According to the report, which cites multiple people familiar with the situation, Donald Trump has been pressing the DOJ to pursue criminal cases against people who leak information to the media on “national security grounds.” Various “tactics” have been discussed, including arresting journalists to push them into revealing their sources.

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    Miller will wait for bad weather, like when it is hailing out, and then he will do a siege. Siege hail! /s

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    Have they thought about arresting those people inside their own organisation who leaked the information in the first place? Like e.g. JD Vance recently?

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      Exactly. It’s not like there are hordes of flaming liberals with access to the “leaked” information.

      The calls to the reporters came from inside the house, and were made by very unhappy Rs. There are literally no other possible suspects.

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    arresting people who do their job because the evil shit youre doing, isnt something you want the public to know about. make that make sense in a democracy

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    Miller “was in favor and insisted that it wouldn’t take long for journalists to give up their sources.”

    The fuck is this shit. I’m hoping people just refuse this lame duck pos and throw him in jail

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    With all the spying apparatus, back doors, and data centers they have running, they still can’t ID sources? As someone who paranoically runs Graphene OS and avoids Facebook and Google, this is actually kind of disappointing.

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    Lol…

    The day they arrest the first journo trump will be impeached and convicted.

    All those fucking sources are Republicans. And Dems only need like 5 Republican Senators to convict in the Senate. They’ll get rid of trump to save themselves from trump in a heartbeat

    Maybe he’s doing it just to get JD on the big boy chair? That way he can try to start pivoting the party back to the middle before 2028.