Beware the Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover

To hear New York Times correspondent Eric Schmitt tell it, his FBI sources are dishing confidential information from their investigations of Donald Trump’s team out of selfless concern for the country. “Many of them are taking risks in order to confirm information that they feel is important for the American public to know,” Schmitt told BBC Newshour host Julian Marshall this morning.

“Are they alarmed, the intelligence agencies,” Marshall asked in response, “because they believe that Mr. Trump is possibly putting the security of the United States at risk?”