“Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press” is the headline in the New York Times this morning. The piece by Scott Shane reprises the case of Thomas Drake, who has been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for passing secrets from the National Security Agency to the Baltimore Sun.
Shane sees the Drake affair as “the latest evidence that the Obama administration is proving more aggressive than the Bush administration in seeking to punish unauthorized leaks,” and I think he’s right. This may well be a case of a Nixon going to China, a president using his position on one end of the political spectrum to accomplish something ideologically unexpected.
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