The government worker infuriated by wrongdoing, the ideologue pushing a particular line, the politico out to savage an opponent. WASHINGTON — For decades, leakers of confidential information to the press were a genus that included many species: The government worker infuriated by wrongdoing, the ideologue pushing a particular line, the politico out to savage an opponent. In recent years, technology has helped such leakers operate on a mass scale: Chelsea Manning and the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables, Edward Snowden and the stolen National Security Agency archive, and the still-anonymous source of the Panama Papers.But now this disparate cast has been joined …read more
Source: Pulse Nigeria
