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July 2020 Intelligence News

• Six months later, Democrats keep working to unearth a big national security secret by Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, July 21. "For months, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has been working to pry loose the legal justification for Trump's order of the assassination of Iran's Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in January."
• Esper Turns Emphasis at Pentagon to Stopping 'Countless' Leaks by Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg News, July 21. "Defense Secretary Mark Esper is pressing officials at the Pentagon to crack down more on the 'countless examples of unauthorized disclosures' officials say are threatening the safety of personnel and undermining national security."
• West Virginia Woman Admits to Willful Retention of Top Secret National Defense Information and International Parental Kidnapping, Justice Dept news release, July 6. "Shirley admitted to unlawfully retaining a National Security Agency (NSA) document containing information classified at the TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (TS/SCI) level relating to the national defense that outlines intelligence information regarding a foreign government's military and political issues."