Kellyanne Conway, senior advisor to Donald Trump, insisted that she is upset about how intelligence officials and lawmakers have been leaking the information they have on the Russian hacking of the election and claims that it should be kept hidden to “protect the public.”
During an interview on Fox and Friends, host Clayton Morris questioned Conway about the president-elect’s planned meeting with beset FBI Director James Comey, but she went on a rant about how the U.S. intelligence agencies was leaking information.
“I’m always disappointed how public and sometimes political some of these figures can seem to be,” she responded. “I’m very concerned, very concerned. You realize it is the Trump team, only us at this time, that is not divulging what occurred in a classified briefing.”
“Ladies and gentlemen,” she continued with her voice rising. “It’s called a classified briefing for a reason. You had the vice president of the United States making a comment about it the other day. You have intelligence officials confirming or denying. This classified information, it’s top secret. Why is it top secret? It’s not top secret to keep it from the public, but to protect the public.”