President Donald Trump's Twitter complaints about "illegal leaks" are easy to dismiss as the latest sign of his authoritarian streak.
Plenty of people already perceive Mr. Trump as a thin-skinned would-be-dictator on a power trip. A crackdown — even a purely rhetorical one — on the press and on whistleblowers that provide transparency into Mr. Trump's administration provides his opponents with additional evidence to confirm pre-existing fears.
