different between leaked vs leakee

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leaked

leaked (not comparable)

Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.
A leaked memo from Downing Street reports that the Prime Minister is planning to call a general election next week.

leak +? -ee

leakee (plural leakees)

One about whom information is leaked.
- 2005, Andrew Rudalevige, The new imperial presidency (page 104)
  He went so far as to change substantive policy decisions after they had been leaked to the press in order to undermine the leaker and embarrass the leakee.
- 2008, Dana Milbank, Homo politicus: the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway
  The two lobbyists understandably saw no reason to keep their information secret; the law, as everybody understood it, punished leakers, not leakees.

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