Opinion
Sep 2017 »![Opinion Opinion](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a8/3f/45/a83f450924aa1a2f8e6210ecf8f7e782.jpg)
Every president inveighs against leakers and bemoans the kiss-and-tell books; no president, to my knowledge, has attempted to impose such a pledge. And while White House staffers have various confidentiality obligations — maintaining the secrecy of classified information or attorney-client privilege, for instance — the notion of imposing a side agreement, supposedly enforceable even after the president leaves office, is not only oppressive but constitutionally repugnant.