The FBI's hypocritical leakers are just as bad (or worse) than the man they hope to damage
by James Gagliano
| September 05, 2018 12:00 AM
Another day, and yet another front-page New York Times piece detailing the inner workings of a sensitive national security investigation. This one, entitled, “Agents Tried to Flip Russian Oligarchs. The Fallout Spread to Trump,†appeared in print on Saturday, and contained leaked information describing case decisions and law enforcement operational maneuvers. The purpose of these unauthorized disclosures should not be construed as any effort to safeguard American lives or fulfill any moral imperative that necessitated their release into the public domain. Those who disclosed classified information here did so for pure partisan political purpose.
And with the virulent anti-Trump fever sweeping the nation and applying “justification†to indefensible conduct and actions by supposedly apolitical government actors, the New York Times journalists made no efforts to conceal the intent of those sharing sensitive and classified information and intelligence. Their reporting shed any pretense of cover for those who might question the impartiality and motives of the leakers. Describing some of their sources as “current and former officials†of the FBI and DOJ, reporters Kenneth P. Vogel and Matthew Rosenberg outline a “broader, clandestine American effort†that sought to gauge the viability of recruiting a half-dozen Russian oligarchs, including Oleg V. Derispaska, with deep financial ties to Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin.
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