In defence of whistleblowers (and Donald Trump)

The intelligence agencies always try to hide their activities, but most often because their actions are incompetent, irrelevant, or illegal. It’s the mystique that justifies their immense budgets, not their actual accomplishments. That’s why they are so vindictive even when the secrets that have been revealed aren’t really very important.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump is not your traditional whistle-blower, driven by high motives and a need to speak truth to power. He’s more of a pack-rat, whose motives for stealing government documents may be obscure even to himself, writes Gwynne Dyer.
LONDON, U.K.—I never thought I’d be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written columns in defence of Daniel Ellsberg, Mordechai Vanunu, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange, so how could I abandon Trump in his tim...

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