The application says the investigation sought to determine who might have told the reporters classified details contained in three news stories: a May 2017 report about Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States at the time; a June 2017 report about the Obama administration’s efforts to battle Russian election interference the previous year; and a July 2017 report about conversations between Kislyak and Jeff Sessions, who was a U.S. senator in 2016 at the time of the conversations and later became Donald Trump’s first attorney general.

Source: Washington Post July 13, 2021 22:17 UTC