Since Watergate, when did the Democrats ever resist releasing government documents? Pentagon papers, Edward Snowden, and Bradley "Trans" Manning leaks for instance.
Here is a list from Wikipedia. How many of these did the Democrats grouse about, even when it jeopordized national security?
- Pentagon Papers: Top secret documents of the United States Department of Defense regarding its involvement in the Vietnam War.
- Afghan War documents leak: Disclosure of a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan.
- Iraq War documents leak: A WikiLeaks disclosure of a collection of 391,832 United States Army field reports.
- United States diplomatic cables leak: A WikiLeaks disclosure of classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world.
- Guantanamo Bay files leak: Classified assessments, interviews, and internal memos about detainees, which were written by the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
- CIA interrogation tapes: Videotapes made by CIA during interrogations of Al-Qaeda suspects.