There is a very direct and profound leadership lesson taught at the United States Naval Academy: bad news does not get better with age. When such volatile information leaks, two considerations come into play: the morality and responsibility of our First Amendment-protected free press to publish while concurrently holding accountable those with security clearances who leaked significant security information. sought to speak with several people who flew aboard the plane with President Trump last week and asked for their phones. In essence, the NYT was essentially channeling the leadership lesson taught by the Navy: the bad news was an unsafe aircraft, and that bad news was made known immediately. Ed Timperlake was Director Technology Assessment, International Technology Security, in OSD, during the President George W. Bush Administration.