Normally, I am against most leaks in government, but we have a President that is incapable of telling the truth. His press minions are sent out to lie, his tweets are usually lies, and his speeches are total lies. Without leaks we have no way of getting the truth. That’s our dilemma; truth or lies.

Our reason for invading Iraq was based on lies concocted by the executive branch. The few leaks were downplayed and anyone printing or airing them were called traitors and un-American. We are still in Afghanistan mainly because of pulling troops and materials out for Iraq and continuing to short the Afghanistan War. That is from several leaked military studies made public.

I don’t think we need to know everything but we must have a reason to mostly believe our leaders. We must have some leaks so we aren’t conned into another Iraq war. We must have confidence in economic reports that everyone uses. When a President orders the statisticians to add a percent to the GDP, it destroys any credibility of our economic reports.

When a President has done business with Russians and won’t release his taxes, we should be concerned. When he wants to cut his taxes from 35% to 15% we should see how it affects him.

Without leaks the close Russian ties would not have been known and investigated. Leaks have shown the European news media’s reports that the United States is no longer the leader of the free world is true. Putin’s latest comments about our President is the same other world leaders have been saying for some weeks.

Without leaks we would be following Alice down the rabbit hole into a Trump fantasy land!