Trump Calls for Probe After British Complaints of Manchester Investigation Leaks

Prime Minister Theresa May raised issue at NATO summit in Brussels.

President Donald Trump said he has requested an investigation into leaks within his administration following complaints from British officials that U.S. officials improperly disclosed sensitive information related to Monday’s suicide bombing in Manchester.

“Leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security,” Mr. Trump said in a statement on Thursday from Brussels, as the White House moved to quell new tensions with a key U.S. ally. Mr. Trump called such disclosures “deeply troubling” and threatened to prosecute anyone responsible for them.

In Washington, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department “will make every effort to put an end” to unauthorized disclosures and had “already initiated appropriate steps to address the rampant leaks.”

A Justice Department spokesman said he wouldn’t comment on “the existence or non-existence of investigations.” In April, Mr. Sessions said the agency had stepped up efforts against leaks and would try to bring prosecutions. “Whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail,” he said at the time.

As outrage in the U.K. intensified over the leaking of sensitive information related to Monday’s bombing at a pop concert, British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would raise the issue of media leaks with Mr. Trump at Thursday’s summit in Brussels of leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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