what do you make of the president saying have the justice department look into it? it s break with precedent for a sitting president to order the justice department to look into their perceived enemies. usually there s a separation between the white house and the justice department. this idea he s ordering the justice department to go after people is startling i think. we ll see where this goes. it s clearly meant to chill the leaks and leakers. to put the fear of investigation into them. i doubt that will work. certainly won t work in terms of the press publishing leaked information. he should go back and look at pentagon papers. that case in the 1970s and hugo black s opinion on that and this idea that free press and informed public outweighs any government claim to secrecy or