Here are 10 other leaks that changed history

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The ruling was leaked by Supreme Court clerk Larry Hammond, who worked for Justice Lewis Powell and was responsible for convincing Powell that the viability standard was the best line to draw when determining that states could no longer ban abortion, according to the Washington Post.
39% : Reagan accepted responsibility for the violations in 1987, claiming the sale began as a strategic opening to Iran that deteriorated into trading arms for hostages.
35% : It included information about Iraqi civilian deaths, the abuse of war prisoners, and the involvement of Iran in the war and was the largest military leak at the time, according to Stacker.
15% : Iran-Contra affair The Iran-Contra scandal, which occurred under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1986, concerned the illegal sale of arms to the Khomeini government in Iran despite the country being under an arms embargo.

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