The Democrats’ well-deserved WikiLeaks blowback

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[Commentary] Over at the CIA and the National Security Agency headquarters, they must be really enjoying watching Democrats in Philadelphia (PA) squirm over WikiLeaks’s exposure of tens of thousands of internal Democratic Party e-mails. There’s a word for what is happening in the intelligence community: Blowback.

Throughout the entirety of the Obama Administration, nothing was done as WikiLeaks damaged our national security with its serial leaks of highly classified intelligence documents. Now Democrats are paying the price for President Barack Obama’s inaction. Apparently, exposing intelligence sources and methods has not mattered enough for the Obama Administration to do something about WikiLeaks. Maybe saving Hillary Clinton from further embarrassment, or worse, will finally spur them to action.


The Democrats’ well-deserved WikiLeaks blowback