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Three Reasons to Reject Trump's Criticism of Intelligence Leaks

The self-proclaimed WikiLeaks lover is poorly positioned to complain about the release of information that disadvantages his administration.
Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

It’s a rare event when President Trump tweets approvingly of a journalist, but yesterday Eli Lake of Bloomberg View gained that unusual honor.

Pretty obviously, the president had not actually read the underlying column, which opens with a summary of Trump’s most egregious untruths, to build to the observation: “for a White House that has such a casual and opportunistic relationship with reporting on Russian responsibility for the DNC and DCCC hacks.  )

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