In the Trump Era, Leaking and Whistleblowing Are More Urgent, and More Noble, Than Ever

For the past 15 years, the U.S. government under both parties has invented whole new methods for hiding what itdoes behind an increasingly impenetrable wall of secrecy. From radical new legal doctrines designed to shield itsbehavior from judicial review to prosecutingsources at record rates, more and more government action has been deliberately hidden from the public.

One of the very few remaining avenues for learning what the U.S. government is doing — beyond the propaganda that itwants Amer...