In April 2018, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against WikiLeaks simply for publishing its emails.The DNC does not allege WikiLeaks participated in hacking of any kind.The emails published by WikiLeaks reveal that the Clinton campaign worked with the DNC to rig the primary election and to engage in elaborate money laundering schemes.Astonishingly, the DNC claims that the emails of its political operatives are "trade secrets" – as if the DNC's rigging efforts were the equivalent to the secret formula for Coca-Cola.Senior Democrats from Donna Brazile to Senator Elizabeth Warren agree that the primary was 'rigged' by the DNC. The top five officers of the DNC, including its president Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, resigned over the issue.The DNC might argue that it can sue the Trump campaign, or even the alleged leakers.James Goodale, the First Amendment lawyer who defended the New York Times for publishing the Pentagon Papers, said the DNC 'paid zero attention to the First Amendment ramifications of their suit '.The Committee to Project Journalists warned , 'By suing WikiLeaks, DNC could endanger principles of press freedom'.The Democratic National Committee has billionaire backers to be able to fight the lawsuit in court for years. WikiLeaks, in contrast, is an award winning small publisher entirely funded by its readers.. But as history shows, you should never bet against WikiLeaks. In the twelve years since it was founded it has never lost a court case and never retracted a publication.