I’m a news junkie. I tend to watch five hours of cable news programming just about every day. While viewing I also read, or at least scan, five to six newspapers a day thanks to the internet, mostly from the Northeast, but sometimes from across the country.

My addiction to news started decades ago, so of course I was familiar with the cases of famous whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning, Eric Snowden and – here’s a blast from the past – Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the infamous Pentagon Papers…