Biden’s Legacy: Fundamentally Changing Nothing For Whistleblowers
When Joe Biden was vice president under President Barack Obama, he was part of an administration that waged an unprecedented war on leaks.
President Biden may not have been as zealous as Obama, however, he periodically harnessed the very machinery that Obama and President Donald Trump wielded to enforce secrecy and silence whistleblowers.
With the Espionage Act, the Obama Justice Department prosecuted more United States government employees and contractors who disclosed information to the press than all previous presidents combined.