Of course, the United States is supposed to be a culture in which the whistle is blown on corruption and law-breaking by public officials and large institutions. It's an interesting sleight-of-hand to make it sound like "leaking" is some unsavory bacterium that has infected this, uh, culture, rather than a necessary ingredient in a democracy. I think it's called "transparency", isn't it?
Whenever I hear a politician ask me to trust him, I remember the devil saying, "Trust me, Winslow."