This is the first in a series of five columns on the recent revelations that the Justice Department, beginning in the Trump administration and continuing into the Biden administration, conducted investigations of leaks of sensitive information by government officials to members of the media. Those investigations reportedly involve subpoenas for communications records of several journalists, as well as other controversial information demands by investigators.
‘I said I was eager to find leakers and would like to nail one to the door as a message.” That, according to his memo-to-self, is what Jim Comey, then the FBI director, pronounced in the Oval Office on February 14, 2017. (See the Justice Department Inspector General’s 2019 report on Comey’s memos, pp. 73-74.)
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