The TV is talking about them. They believe the number of leaks from the new born Trump administration is excessive. The imply (they don't have the stones to come out and say it) that the leaks are coming from Trump appointees jostling for position inside the new administrative.
I wonder about that. The vast US civil service are Democrats to a man (or a woman) They are fire proof. We could not fire low level civil servants even after we caught them stealing stuff out the base warehouse. I'll bet you cannot fire them for leaking, even if you could catch them at it. Not when they can put gigabytes of data onto a single easily concealable thumb drive. And they all have broadband internet at home.
Judging from the hysterical response of Democrats to Trump, being shown on TV hour after hour, I bet a lot of those Democratic civil servants are just as rabidly anti-Trump. And they plan on leaking to damage the Trump administration.
Dunno what Trump can do about that. Civil servants are everywhere in the US government. They are the typists, the IT guys, the administrators, the janitorial staff, the receptionists, and every sort of paper pusher. And they can see everything, especially if someone has it typed up.
We may be in for the most transparent administration in history, where everything gets leaked, to the media, to the Congress, to the homeless in the streets.
Transparency may be OK, but American allies are already reluctant to share intelligence with the Americans for fear it will turn up on the front page and the New York Times, burning agents and undoing years of careful intel work.
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