No administration likes leaks, except for the leaks they send out on purpose, such as trial balloons in order to find out how popular an idea might be, or to smear a foe or to praise a friend.
The felon, criming on steroids, stealing our money and selling his influence, has more reason than other presidents to hide facts. He and his maladminstration have fired people, lots of people, to keep unpleasant facts from coming out. Such as people in the military. The head of BLS (don’t like the economic data).
But the felon’s administration is leaking, and leaking badly.
Now, a lot of it is due to sheer, actually MIND-NUMBING incompetence and, well, cognitive decline (which can be lumped with incompetence). If you include a reporter in your group chat and don’t say off the record first, if it’s at all interesting, it will get reported! Also, the felon is the one who announced to reporters on AF1 that he had gotten an MRI, something left out initial reports on his most recent annual semi-annual who-knows-how-often? physical.
Incompetence is a sign of weakness.
But leaks that are both voluntary and intentional are a sign of weakness for an administration. The felon and his minions do not have control over everything. They go around shaking their big sticks, and sometimes they do real damage with them, but they have built up so much ill-will among those in the government (and everywhere else). People may not like their colleagues getting fired. They may not like how they are being treated. Moreover, the plummeting polls and the fact that the felon is often asleep in the Oval Office is helping people go out to the press and to tell the truth.
Anyway, here’s a list of NINE leaks, due both to incompetence and to the intentional whistleblowing.
Please, add more in the comments!
1. FBI talking to Allison Gill about the Epstein files.
I did a diary about this (amazingly, my most popular ever). We won’t revisit the details of what these people said about the Epstein files (which was plenty), or even about the incompetent process of trying to review (and presumably, redact) those files.
For the point of this diary the important thing is that they actually said it.
They were pissed enough to contact her and tell her about it. Lots of them.
Here’s her video on the matter.
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Now one reason there were so many leaks is because the administration involved so many agents.
Some were willing to talk, and we have to assume it is because they did not like what they were doing.
This leak is due to Incompetence for assigning so many people to the project, and running it poorly, but mostly voluntary, as people are disgusted by what they had to review.
2. X letting us know that Maga and “America First” has a lot of non American accounts
A little more than a week ago, X turned on a feature that showed where account origins are based. And we learned — or rather, many of us had confirmed — that a large portion of them were not based in the US. Nigeria, India, Russia, and the Balkans.
Not sure how to characterize this. Incompetence? Perhaps the people at X did not realize what this feature would show (that seems unlikely; they cannot all be that stupid).
Perhaps Musk realized it and it was a warning shot to the felon. In that case, voluntary?
Perhaps the people working at X were rebelling against Musk. That’s also interesting. And much more voluntary.
Yes, it was turned off, but we have screenshots. Who knows if it could ever be turned on again?
And the fact that it was turned off screams COVER UP. Which we should remind people of, again and again.
3. Republicans in the House telling people they hate Mike Johnson and the felon, and blame them for the GOP’s difficult position
Now, Marjorie Taylor Greene was not at all quiet about her resignation. Her resignation was not a leak.
But other members of the GOP spoke to Jake Sherman over at Punchbowl News.
Remember, not everyone speaks up.
The iceberg goes much deeper.
And it’s not just the rank and file. I think Mike Johnson looks miserable. And, out in the rest of the country, including places such as Indiana, GOP in state legislatures are complaining about death threats and getting swatted.
Clearly these conversations on the part of GOP House members are voluntary, but driven by the felon’s treatment of the people who worked for him. People don’t like death threats or primary threats or just plain being ignored.
4. Hegseth got mad when Signal chats were leaked
In case you don’t remember Signalgate (there have been so many!) here’s a reminder about what happened. The Conversation
Depending on what you think of Donald Trump, his administration could fit either of the following two descriptions. Chaotic, vindictive and accident-prone, marked by mendacity, driven by impulse and bent on securing the will of the leader, rather than – as in the US constitution – the will of the people. Or it could be a government masterminded by a man playing 4D chess while all around him are playing chequers. A president whose deal-making skills and focus on outcomes ensure the security and prosperity of America and its allies.
If you base your assessment on the people Trump has chosen as his key national security advisers then, after the recent Signal chat group intelligence debacle, you’d almost certainly opt for chaotic and accident-prone, at the very least.
Looking around the Signal chatroom, who do we have? National security advisor Mike Waltz, Vice-President J.D. Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA director John Ratcliffe and a supporting cast of other senior Trump staffers. And, unwittingly, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
Still, despite this being entirely the fault of the administration, Hegseth has been totally paranoid about leaks:
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Breathalyzer, anyone? ‘I’ll hook you up to a f***ing polygraph test,’ a furious Hegseth told acting chair of the Joint Chief of Staff in hunt for leak: report www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
— (@carpenter22.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T12:20:48.892Z
Some of this belongs at least, in the incompetence category.
5. Hegseth/the felon gave the order to murder people
Hegseth really hates the free press. That’s why he banned the old free press and is now planning to rely on a very right-wing press.
But not everyone hates the press. And so, people are talking. Now, the attack described in this article took place in September, so it took a while for it to reach the press and to get vetted and reported. But it was.
Washington Post, Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima
The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said. ✂️
The alleged traffickers pose no imminent threat of attack against the United States and are not, as the Trump administration has tried to argue, in an “armed conflict” with the U.S., these officials and experts say. Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign.
Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight “would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,” said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.
This report is based on interviews with and accounts from seven people with knowledge of the Sept. 2 strike and the overall operation.
In other words, 7 people talked to reporters. 7 people who, we can assume, are disgusted with current conditions in the military.
Why is this so very important? It’s because the felon and his minions, even though they have the titular command of the military, they take their oath to the Constitution. (Props to Senator Mark Kelly and others for reminding them of this.) And, over and over we have seen that many in the military do not like the felon, such as when
Even if these people are hand-picked (although this group might be as incompetent at picking loyalists as they are at nearly everything else), seven of them went to talk to the Washington Post.
Leaking is a big step. We have to assume that those who speak to reporters are just the tip of the iceberg of discontent with the felon and his orders.
This falls in the category of voluntary, and seriously so, as they would certainly be
6. The demolition of the White House’s East Wing
Amazingly, the felon and his minions tried to keep this unseen, when, you know, it’s out there in the world to see.
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Dan Rather on the destruction of the East Wing:
"The only reason we know the East Wing is being bulldozed is because Treasury Department employees, who work next door, defied a White House order by sharing photos taken from their offices of a national historic landmark being leveled."
— Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T13:00:18.634Z
How nice to see something from Dan Rather, who is a national treasure.
I heard a discussion on some podcast on how the bulldozing of the East Wing was like a gut punch for a lot of Americans, and that is when the felon’s polls started sinking.
Let us say well done to the Treasury employees who took these pictures and got them out there despite being told not to do so. This move was absolutely voluntary, although I don’t see how the felon could hope to keep this secret. We would notice that the White House looked different!
Anna Bower Lawfare
It was 1:20 p.m. on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 11. I was lounging in my pajamas, idly scrolling through Netflix, having spent the morning reading news stories, occasionally tweeting, and watching TV. It was a rare day off.
Then my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
Lindsey Halligan—the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia—was texting me. As it turned out, she was texting me about a criminal case she is pursuing against one of the president’s perceived political enemies: New York Attorney General Letitia James.
So began my two-day text correspondence with the woman President Donald Trump had installed, in no small part, to bring the very prosecution she was now discussing with me by text message.
Over the next 33 hours, Halligan texted me again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
Through the whole of our correspondence, however, there is something Halligan never said: She never said a word suggesting that she was not “on the record.”
This appears to be due to sheer incompetence, which is in line with all of Halligan’s other work.
8. Maxwell’s getting golden treatment at Club Fed
We got this story due to a whistleblower — who was discovered and fired. Rusty Surette, KBTX
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - We chose a breakfast restaurant in College Station to meet on Monday afternoon, with hopes we’d have an uninterrupted discussion about her time at the women’s Federal Prison Camp in Bryan. She’d been fired from the facility for sharing communications from its most notorious inmate, convicted child-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, with members of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C.
Her name is Noella Turnage; she’s 46, resides in south Brazos County, and is a longtime healthcare professional who had been employed by the Bureau of Federal Prisons since 2019.
She is also the so-called ‘whistleblower’ mentioned last week in a CNN report that said Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the sexual abuse operation operated by Jeffrey Epstein, had copies of her correspondence with an attorney and others shared with Maryland representative Jaime Raskin.
“I actually emailed them from work, from my Bureau of Prisons email address, and said, ‘Hey, this is who I am. This is where I work, and I have some things I think you might be interested in, and documents you may be interested in.’ I didn’t even specify what it was,” said Turnage.
Not sure on the timing of her leaks being discovered and her firing, but this woman was willing to do the right thing and to contact the press.
Even in Texas. Even someone who works for the Bureau of Federal Prisons. Too many perks for a pedophile.
Clearly voluntary.
9. Dementia Drips
The felon was the one who mentioned his MRI, an unforced leak, while on Air Force One Anna Commander, Newsweek
President Donald Trump told reporters while on Air Force One Friday night that he had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan as part of his "standard" physical last month and that "the result was outstanding." ✂️
The comments from Trump, 79, spark renewed focus on presidential health transparency and medical protocols for U.S. leaders. The absence of immediate details on the specific purpose of the MRI, combined with the president's repeated assertions of exceptional health, has generated lingering questions about both necessity and clarity in presidential health reporting.
MRIs are not standard. MRIs are also specific for particular problems.
The fact that the felon has been talking about it means that he himself is a great leaker. We have to put this into the incompetence bucket.
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I didn’t include the stuff about Russia’s surrender plan for Ukraine, because information seems to have been leaked by Ukraine — and the leak was clearly to their advantage -- and was also just due to analysis of what was shown. I haven’t been following this that closely.
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Any more? Please include in the comments.
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