Leaks Are Good for Liberty
By Gary North
LewRockwell.com
March 9, 2017
The White House is leaking like a sieve. Why should conservatives worry about this?
The federal government does everything it can to increase the secrecy of its operations. It invades our privacy, but it whines when any of the rest of us invade the privacy of government bureaucrats.
I am all in favor of WikiLeaks. I think WikiLeaks should be nonpartisan. I think it should expose anything that does not directly affect national security. In any case, the main thing that affects national security is America’s meddling in other nations’ affairs. We could reduce the threat of attacks on the United States by reducing American meddling in foreign nations’ affairs.
President Trump has complained about the number of leaks. This is good news. He seems unable to stop the leaks.
Leaks undermine the Presidency. That was why I was in favor of them during Obama’s administration. He was a master at controlling leaks. So was George W. Bush. That was bad for the American public generally. We needed more leaks regarding what both administrations were planning for America. We lost the war in Iraq, and we are losing the war in Afghanistan precisely because Bush was able to control the leaks associated with the unnecessary and illegal invasions of both nations. Congress went along with both invasions. But Congress, as always, did not follow the Constitution and declare war against these nations. It has not declared war against a nation since the declaration of war against Germany on December 11, 1941. Germany had already declared war on the United States.
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