It’s an absolute riot to see the Washington Post lend cover for Democrats feigning concern over potential leaks from Congress. Remember, it was congressional Democrats themselves who leaked the biggest story of 2018, and it was none other than the Post that directly benefited from it.

A front-page story in the Post on Tuesday said that Democrats were considering “extraordinary steps” to conceal the identity of a “whistleblower” in order to “prevent President Trump’s congressional allies from exposing the individual.”

The whistleblower is at the center of the Ukraine controversy that’s very boring and convoluted, but which entails Trump earlier this year asking the country’s leader to look into possibly corrupt activity involving former Vice President Joe Biden and his 49-year-old son Hunter.

Trump, understandably, wants to know the whistleblower’s identity so that he can undermine his credibility, which is probably not really necessary given that we already know he’s a career government worker who supports one of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates (I wonder who).

But since when did the Washington Post start caring about the concerns of anti-leakers? The paper said that Democrats might go so far as to have the whistleblower offer testimony to Congress from a remote location while having any potential identifiers, like his face and voice, obscured. “The efforts reflect Democrats’ deepening distrust of their GOP colleagues,” the report said, “whom they see as fully invested in defending a president who has attacked the whistleblower’s credibility and demanded absolute loyalty from Republicans.”

That’s a very charitable way of saying that Democrats are afraid of what we might find out about the government worker once we learn his name. Mind you, when Republicans show caution about having classified documents shared with their colleagues, that throws the national press into high alert of a cover-up. When Democrats do it, it’s due to their rightful “deepening distrust” of the GOP. And when Republicans defend the head of their party, that’s “absolute loyalty.” When Democrats do it, it’s a sign of strong party unity.

It’s interesting timing for the Post, of all places, to start airing partisan worries about leaks. It was the Post, after all, that published the name of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who last year accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her in high school. Ford had said she wanted to remain anonymous, but her claims were first leaked by Democrats to the New York Times and then her identity was revealed by the Post.

Republicans wouldn’t have wanted that leaked, and they even offered Ford the opportunity to give testimony to Congress quietly from her home in California, rather than on national TV in Washington. I don’t recall any Democrats fretting over Ford’s privacy or any national papers giving a platform to Republicans who knew that a leak from Democrats might have just tanked their Supreme Court nominee.

Democrats salivate at the thought of getting every year of Trump’s private tax returns precisely so they can leak potentially embarrassing details contained within them. Any journalist want to write a story about the “extraordinary steps” that the administration is taking to prevent that because of the “deepening distrust” Trump has for Democrats who have shown no reason to trust them? Probably not.

Apparently, not all leaks are created equal.