Jeff Sessions reportedly wants to give lie detector tests to the entire National Security Council

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September 12, 2017 7:26 PM

Sessions is homing in on leaked information about Trump's call with Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian prime minister, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated the idea of putting the whole National Security Council through lie detector tests to scope out who leaked information about President Donald Trump's conversations with foreign leaders, Axios reported on Sunday.

Sources familiar with the matter told the news website that Sessions reportedly wants to administer a "one-time, one-issue" polygraph test to every one of the over 100 members of the NSC to narrow down possible suspects.

The attorney general is reportedly zeroing in on the leaked information about Trump's phone call with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull because only a small circle of people would have had access to transcripts of the phone calls.

During his contentious conversation with the Mexican leader, Trump asked him to stop publicly saying that Mexico would not pay for the border wall Trump wants to build across the US' southern border. The wall, as well as Trump's promise that Mexico would finance it, was a core pillar of his campaign.

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