Documentary filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore is launching a website called "TrumpiLeaks" to allow whistleblowers to securely leak information to him about US President Donald Trump and his administration.
"Patriotic Americans in government, law enforcement or the private sector with knowledge of crimes, breaches of public trust and misconduct committed by Donald J. Trump and his associates are needed to blow the whistle in the name of protecting the United States of America from tyranny," Moore wrote in an open letter on the Huffington Post.
"I know this is risky. I knew we may get in trouble. But too much is at stake to play it safe," Moore wrote.
Moore, 63, said that while no digital communication was 100 per cent secure, he and his team had used the most secure technology possible to protect anonymity.
TrumpiLeaks was announced one day after the US Department of Justice said that a 25-year-old US intelligence contractor had been arrested and charged with leaking classified National Security Agency material related to Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election to a news organisation.
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Trump has called for a crackdown on leaks to the media.
Moore, a longtime champion of liberal causes and outspoken critic of Trump, is working on a documentary about the 2016 presidential election.
The TrumpiLeaks site is a portal on Michael Moore's personal website. His open letter was also posted on his homepage.
Some US news organisations including The Washington Post, Huffington Post, The New York Times, and ProPublica have links on their websites for the public to send information to journalists.
