President Donald Trump threatened to jail journalists who published details of a daring US military raid to rescue two airmen whose aircraft was shot down over Iran, accusing them of jeopardizing the mission. 

Without naming specific outlets, Trump said that reports that mentioned that only one of the two pilots had initially been rescued threatened the attempt to rescue the other by tipping off the Iranians. Trump said the administration would search for the person who disclosed information to the news media and also detain journalists if they didn’t disclose the source of the leak.

“We have to find that leaker, because that’s a sick person,” Trump told reporters. “The person that did the story will go to jail if he doesn’t say. And I think everybody would understand they put this mission at great risk.”