Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America

by Kimberley Strassel

The leaks that accompanied the first part of the Trump administration were so numerous and damaging that Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson felt compelled to study it. His team examined media leaks between January 20, 2017, and May 25, 2017—Trump’s first 126 days in office. The report found the Trump administration had “faced 125 leaked stories—one leak a day—containing information that is potentially damaging to national security under the standards laid out in a 2009 Executive Order signed by President Barack Obama.” The leaking was seven times faster than that in Obama’s first 126 days. Nearly 80 percent of the leaks focused on the Russia probe, and many revealed “closely-held information such as intelligence community intercepts, FBI interviews and intelligence, grand jury subpoenas, and even the workings of a secret surveillance court.”