14 DAY TRIAL // The Trump administration is leaking information left and right and it has been doing so for months. Now, Michael Moore, famous documentary film-maker, has launched a website to allow whistleblowers to securely leak information about Trump and his administration, called TrumpiLeaks.
TrumpiLeaks encourages any sources to use encryption software to share documents, video and audio recordings, as well as photographs.
In an open letter published by the Huffington Post, Moore states that patriotic Americans in government, law enforcement or the private sector with knowledge of crimes, breaches of public trust and misconduct committed by Donald Trump and his associates are needed to "blow the whistle in the name of protecting the United State of America from tyranny."
Moore encourages whistleblowers despite knowing the risks
While Moore admits that he may get in trouble over this site, he says there's too much at stake to play it safe. Given the current investigation into Trump's ties to Russia and Russia's involvement in the presidential elections from last fall, that's a fair assessment of the situation.
The film-maker admits that there's no way to know if digital communications are 100% secure, but they've used the best technology possible to protect anonymity, including encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Peerio.
The news about TrumpiLeaks comes just a day after the US Department of Justice arrested Reality Winner, an NSA contractor, for leaking classified documents with The Intercept. In those documents, it is revealed that the NSA discovered that Russian intelligence agents hacked the US voting system.
The launch also comes just a day before James Comey, the former chief of the FBI who was in charge of investigating Trump before he was fired by Trump himself, is set to testify in front of the Senate. It is believed he has plenty to say about the investigation and what led to his firing, especially given the statement made by James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, who said that the current situation with Trump is worse than the Watergate. In fact, Comey's statement was just made public ahead of Thursday's hearing and it's full of revelations about how Trump asked him to drop the investigation into Flynn's involvement with the Russians.