"Perhaps one of our US friends can explain if it is illegal for the security services to leak against the sitting President's administration?"
Moot point
If the subject of those leaks is disclosure of illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional information, surely it is the duty of the security forces to pass on that information.
The President is not above the law nor the interests of the American people
Unverifies and uninformed leakers are not comparable
Jim Carroll