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June 17, 2017
Margot Susca
The War on Leakers Is About to Get Worse
From the Pentagon Papers to Trump: How Washington gained the upper hand against whistleblowers.
February 15, 2017
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump Is on the Ropes
A barrage of damning leaks is making the president look weaker every day.
October 31, 2013
Michael Kinsley
The Media's Arrogant Defense of Leaks
August 21, 2013
Molly Redden
A Stone-Faced Bradley Manning Gets 35 Years
August 18, 2013
Benjamin Wittes
There's a Perfectly Good NSA Defense that the Obama Administration Isn't Making
July 23, 2013
John B. Judis
Obama Should Just Pardon Bradley Manning
It's an elegant way out of the leak controversies
June 20, 2013
Noreen Malone
Sources of Discomfort
National security reporting in the age of leak hunts
May 16, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
It's the Technocratic Arrogance, Stupid
Obama isn't Bush or Nixon. He's in hot water for behaving too much like Woodrow Wilson.
May 15, 2013
Molly Redden
Is the 'Chilling Effect' Real?
National-security reporters on the impact of federal scrutiny

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