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“Leaks of ongoing counterintelligence investigations .... are also deeply unfair to the targets of such investigations, by tarnishing their reputations without a full airing of the evidence.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
“Leaking info about an ongoing intelligence investigation is a classic example of surveillance abuse,” says Tim Edgar, who served on Obama’s National Security Council. “It’s what J. Edgar Hoover did.” What happened in 2017 “clearly appeared to be politically motivated leaking.”
“Leaks set the narrative for the first two years of the Trump presidency. ... [G]iven that Mueller did not find the conspiracy alleged by people such as Brennan, those leaks now deserve scrutiny.”
