Commentary Democratic Party officials and their media partners are out for blood after news that Donald Trump’s Department of Justice subpoenaed the data of reporters and Democratic congressmen. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have already set up one investigation to go along with the DOJ’s own probe. In other words, they’re taking revenge. Because Trump officials failed to hold anyone accountable for leaking classified information to prosecute a campaign of political warfare, they made themselves vulnerable to the same operatives who now mean to finish them off. Trump’s first attorney general Jeff Sessions said in November 2017 that the Justice Department was investigating 27 leaks of classified intelligence. Most of the leaks were tasked to advance the Trump-Russia narrative, but more generally officials leaked to show that Trump had no control over the government he was elected to run. The press was the essential component in the anti-Trump campaign. In …
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