The Trump administration is proposing requiring all federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements to prevent internal leaks to media organizations.
The draft measure defines confidential information broadly to include internal operations, personnel matters and sensitive pre-decisional material not yet publicly available.
Officials cite unauthorized disclosures about the US operation in Venezuela and the leak of personal information of thousands of ICE personnel as justification.
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The White House is preparing a government-wide nondisclosure agreement aimed at curtailing federal workers’ sharing of “confidential government information,” as it seeks to stop internal leaks to media organizations.
