Washington D.C. – The Swamp is about to get a whole lot drier, folks. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), bless their hearts, is finally doing something about the endless river of leaks flowing from the bowels of the federal government. OPM Director Scott Kupor is spearheading a proposal to slap standardized nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) on federal employees, and the meltdown is already epic.

These NDAs, we're told, are all about "preserving deliberative decision-making." Translation: stopping disgruntled government employees from running to the New York Times every time they disagree with the boss. Apparently, grown adults can't handle the concept of internal discussions staying internal. SAD!

The usual suspects are already screaming about "whistleblower protections" and "government transparency." Give me a break. These are the same people who think it's okay to dox ICE agents (remember that little gem?) and undermine national security for a few clicks. Transparency is great, but not when it means handing our enemies a playbook.

"This is going through the full regulatory process, so people can give notices and comments," said Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director Scott Kupor to Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview on Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, the usual Kabuki theater. But the writing's on the wall: the Trump train is coming, and it's bringing NDAs.

Kupor offered a compelling hypothetical scenario of a leaky meeting and the dangers posed by such leaks. "I had a meeting today … we had 10 people in the room … it's really hard to run the organization if we have that conversation and then nine out of those 10 people go call the media and say, ‘hey, let me just tell you what we talked about in this conversation.’" No kidding, Sherlock. Try running a lemonade stand when your employees are live-tweeting your secret recipe.

So why now? Well, remember the Venezuela raid leak? Or how about the time some genius decided to publish the personal information of ICE agents? These aren't isolated incidents, folks. This is a pattern of deliberate sabotage by deep-state actors who think they know better than the elected officials. They seethe with anger, and so they leak. It's what they do.

Kevin Owen, a partner at Gilbert Employment Law, specializing in federal employment issues, told the Government Executive that “OPM is now trying to become this super personnel office that centralizes its authority over all federal employees, ostensibly at the direction of the White Ho...”. Oh no! Centralized authority! The horror! Maybe, just maybe, a little bit of centralized authority is exactly what this out-of-control bureaucracy needs.

Of course, the Left is losing their minds. They see this as an attack on the First Amendment, a chilling effect on free speech, etc. But the First Amendment doesn't give you the right to leak classified information or undermine national security. And let's be honest, most of these leaks are politically motivated anyway. They're designed to damage the administration and advance a partisan agenda.

So, kudos to the OPM for finally stepping up and doing something about this problem. The NDAs might not be a perfect solution, but they're a step in the right direction. It's time to drain the swamp, one NDA at a time. Let the meltdowns continue!

Sources:

* U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) * Government Executive