The media has created a new more secure way for administration officials to leak information on Trump. In fact that say it’s almost untraceable, and that’s the intention:
USA TODAY – The USA TODAY Network has launched a secure website for sources who want to share information with reporters covering government institutions from city halls to the White House.
The tool, called SecureDrop, is available at https://newstips.usatoday.com.
SecureDrop is a system of communication made available by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to protect journalists and their sources. It uses an encrypted and anonymous computer network known as Tor and routes internet connections through a series of different computers around the globe, making it largely untraceable. The network requires use of a special web browser, which is available here.
The system was developed amid a series of leak investigations under President Obama’s administration in which federal agents secretly accessed reporters’ phone records to identify their sources. President Trump has given no indication that he intends to alter that course; in a combative news conference Thursday, he said he had personally asked the Justice Department to investigate leaks that have ranged from details of his phone calls with foreign leaders to information about an intelligence investigation involving some of his campaign aides.
“Those are criminal leaks,” Trump said.
Trump’s election has created “a sense of urgency” among news organizations to find better ways to protect their sources, said Trevor Timm, director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which helped develop the whistle-blower system.
“Since the election, things have just exploded as far as demand for SecureDrop goes. Almost every single news organization you can mention has reached out to us in the past few months,” Timm said. The foundation’s online directory lists 29 news organizations that are using the system, including The New York Times, BuzzFeed, and the Associated Press.
They actually admit this is all about Trump. The media clearly wants to destabilize his administration as much as possible.
And notice in the article that they are already putting Obama’s authoritarian police state wiretapping of journalists and their families on Trump. They claim he’s going to do the same thing, when we’ve heard nothing like this coming out of the administration.
Obama is the one who wiretapped the media, yet there was no demand for this until Trump got elected?
Yes, the media are absolutely acting like the very opposition party that he’s called them in the past.