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    To understand Trump-team leaks, look at the leakers’ motives

    May 02, 2018 3 minutes

    News leaks have bedeviled many US presidential administrations. Teddy Roosevelt loved dropping the press tidbits but was shocked when they weren’t printed verbatim. Richard Nixon hated leaks and formed an internal anti-leak Plumbers team, inadvertently leading to Watergate abuses. Barack Obama prosecuted more leakers under the Espionage Act (eight) than all previous occupants of the Oval Office – combined.

    But under President Trump, White House leaks have reached a new level. They’re not just a means of looking important to a reporter, or dispatching a rival. In some instances, they’ve become a

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