leaker

[leek-er]

noun

1. someone or something that leaks, especially a person who releases secret information to the public without authorization.

Example Sentences

Gen. Tomer-Yerushalmi directed the investigation into the leak in October 2024, eventually reporting to the Supreme Court that the leaker couldn’t be identified.

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Pulte, who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, told the president he had identified leakers who were undermining the administration.

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Investigators, he said, could catch the leaker and their accomplices “easily,” he continued.

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Rubio also cast doubt on the leaked report's credibility, suggesting the contents had been distorted in the media and labelling the leakers as "professional stabbers".

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Less well known is another lower-key effort to suppress reporting by seeking to collect the phone records of reporters and trying to force their testimony in court, all in pursuit of government “leakers.”

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