Glenn Greenwald: Democrats ‘Suddenly Love Leaks,’ But Attacked Them Under Obama

Glenn Greenwald said on CNN’s Reliable Sources this morning that Democrats praising the Trump administration leaks are being pretty big hypocrites.

Greenwald pointed to fellow panelist Carl Bernstein in talking about the value and importance of journalists reporting on important matters based on leaks.

However, he said that people––Democrats in particular––seem to forget that it’s not like President Trump‘s attacks on leaks are without precedent:

“If you look at the last eight years, there has been a very concerted war on not just sources and whistleblowers, but also journalists, implemented by not Donald Trump but by the Obama administration. More sources prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act than in all previous administrations combined. Journalists such as James Rosen at Fox News and Jim Risen at The New York Times and those of us who worked on the Snowden reporting constantly threatened with prosecution or having our phone records subpoenaed and the like. And Democratic officeholders in D.C. were virtually unanimous in the idea that people who leak information that’s classified are villains, they’re traitors, they oughta go to prison.”

He said that Democrats “suddenly love leaks now that it’s helping them” after eight years of happily going along with an “aggressive war” against investigative journalism.

Watch above, via CNN.

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