Prof. Kitrosser Quoted in The Columbus Dispatch on Leaks of Classified Information

Professor Heidi Kitrosser was quoted in an article in The Columbus Dispatch (subscription required) about a U.S. Justice Department investigation into alleged classified information leaks by a former staffer on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. The article cites Kitrosser’s view that President “Trump has continued an unfortunate precedent begun by [President] Obama in aggressively pursuing leakers.” The article also quotes Kitrosser to the effect that “The heads of agencies, presidents, people in power are like the rest of us—they don’t like to be criticized, don’t like to be questioned, don’t like their mistakes to be pointed out. ... Generally they are not going to approve of employees sharing inconvenient information with the press. But sometimes that information is very much in the public interest, and there needs to be some level of protection of confidentiality for journalists in order to have relationships with sources.”