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Esquire ONLINE: Americans Should Be Worried About (the Lack of) Leaks
When I was preparing my article "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama" for publication, I had a conversation with a source from the intelligence agencies. A month before, he had spoken to me, on the record; now he was in a panic.
It wasn't that he had disclosed classified information; he hadn't. It was that, as he said, "everything had changed" in Washington, with the furor over the "leaks" that had resulted in the New York Times' two front-page stories on classified national-security programs, the first on targeted killing, the second on the Stuxnet computer virus.