There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.
Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.
If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
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