The Spygate Leakers Aren’t Whistleblowers, They’re Criminals

President Donald J. Trump speaks with reporters outside the South Portico entrance of the White House on April 5, 2019. Joyce N. Boghosian

Commentary

To expose how former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration had been lying to both Congress and the U.S. public about the Vietnam War, in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked a classified Department of Defense report to The New York Times.