NPR =At Tuesday's White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders misleadingly asserted that Trump administration's use of nondisclosure agreements both during and after government employment was very common.
"Despite contrary opinion, it's actually very normal. And every administration prior to the Trump administration has had NDAs, particularly specific for anyone that had a security clearance." said Sanders. Trump Campaign Targets Omarosa Manigault Newman Over Tell-All Book Politics Trump Campaign Targets Omarosa Manigault Newman Over Tell-All Book
Sanders was correct in saying government security clearances include nondisclosure agreements (NDAs). But she mixed national security with presidential politics when she applied that standard to the NDAs drawn up by the Trump campaign and the White House.
"The government does not impose nondisclosure agreements on former federal employees with respect to any unclassified information, no matter how 'confidential,' sensitive or embarrassing," said Bradley Moss, a Washington, D.C. attorney who practices federal employment and national security clearance law, in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition.
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