The 'Washington Post' Trolls for Stolen Documents

Within the first week of the administration of President Trump, often-conflicting reports trickled out from government agencies about explicit or tacit requests to withhold information from the public. A memo at the Department of Agriculture halting the release of documents. A shutdown of a government Twitter account for over an embarrassing retweet. A report from Reuters (denied by the administration) that the Environmental Protection Agency was told to remove a page about climate change.

Much of this is murky. Coupled with the administration’s unwillingness to accept demonstrated points of data and with the government’s existing efforts to tamp down on leakers, however, it seems very possible that the next four years could be marked by critical information being kept under lock and key in executive branch offices.

This is precisely why The Washington Post and other news outlets created systems to allow government employees to leak information as securely as possible. We reached out to Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which helped set up The Post’s system to explain how it works.

If there is any material difference between this and Whittaker Chambers' hollowed-out pumpkin, what is it? 

Read more here: https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/02/12/the-washington-post-trolls-for-stolen-documents/