White House Email Demanding Staffers Not Leak to Press Leaked to Press

An email from Susie Wiles ordering White House staff to stop leaking to the press was . . . leaked . . . on Friday, when Politico's West Wing Playbook published the March memo. In it, Wiles sternly states that "no staff member within the Executive Office of the President is permitted to speak with members of the news media without the explicit approval of the White House Communications Office. Unauthorized leaks will not be tolerated and are subject to sanction up to and including termination." Donald Trump's handpicked top aide also appealed to staffers' sense of the greater good. . . .