Eli Lake, Columnist

Strange Allies in the Battle Over Government Secrets

As Sean Hannity embraces Julian Assange, a longtime transparency advocate praises the government's intelligence chief.

September 8, 2016 at 10:00 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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President Barack Obama's is the most transparent administration ever.

That joke almost writes itself. The same administration that named a Fox News reporter a co-conspirator in a leak case? The same administration that purged a video from its archives in which the State Department spokeswoman acknowledged it misled the press about Iran negotiations? The same administration that has invoked the Espionage Act against leakers more times than all other previous administrations? I could go on.