Trump cracking down on leaks, Intel employees scared

The should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Associated Press correction:
It's only 3 agencies who employees are scared, not all of them as we erroneously reported 3,412 times previously.

That tells you how fricked we are when the damn AP has sold out to the left.

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Intel employees scared

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That is not Trump's fault. I think they call it consequences?

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That tells you how fricked we are when the damn AP has sold out to the left.

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Dude, where have you been?

The AP has been a leftist controlled entity for decades. I have worked in newsrooms in TV, radio and newspapers, and that is where most of your slanted news originates.

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Not sure about that but his team fricked over whistleblowers.

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Which ones?

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One U.S. official voiced concern over even talking to their superiors about a benign call from a reporter. The agency this official works for had started limiting staff’s access to information, they said, and it would make it far easier to figure out who was talking to people in the media.

There was suspicion, the official said, that the agency was even tracking what they printed, to keep tabs on what information they were accessing.

“I’m just trying to keep my head down,” another U.S. intelligence official recently told POLITICO.

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Right. Do your fricking job FOR America. Not against it.

Leaking is AGAINST THE LAW.

Politico writes this article like we should be sympathetic to leakers who have an agenda against Trump and for the Democrat Party.

BOOM!

When President Barack Obama took office, in 2009, he championed the cause of government transparency, and spoke admiringly of whistle-blowers, whom he described as “often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government.” But the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks—more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years.
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a conservative political scientist at the Hudson Institute, who, in his book “Necessary Secrets” (2010), argues for more stringent protection of classified information, says, “Ironically, Obama has presided over the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history—even more so than Nixon.”

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His Justice Department has prosecuted more such cases against whistle-blowers than all previous Administrations combined, setting a precedent that some fear Donald Trump will invoke—and drastically build upon—to further muzzle dissent.

This is a legitimate concern. The zealous prosecution of national-security whistle-blowers is a stain on Obama’s legacy. (After the case against Drake collapsed, in 2011, a federal judge chastised the Justice Department for putting him through “four years of hell,” describing its conduct as “unconscionable.”)

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dissenters such as Edward Snowden

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