You have no idea what the most powerful man on earth can do with all of the vast resources at their command.
Anyone that can order air strikes on a country just to take the heat that results from a simple newspaper story. The President can order thousands of FBI files to be brought to the Oval Office to be scoured, copied and used one at a time, for instance, say leak a story about an elected official fathering a child out of wedlock, etc.
The office of the Presidency of the U.S. has more "tools" at their disposal and ruin reputations, marriages, careers and people one thought of as friends, vanish overnight to keep the heat off of them.
Don't believe me, check on Gary Aldrich, former FBI agent that dared cross the Clinton's, Bob Livingston, former House of Representatives member from LA who was picked to be Speaker of the House, then there is Dan Burton, House member from Indiana, all that came in line to. E destroyed by the Clinton White House.
perhaps in these days and times the good guys can get usable information exposed by use of blogs, tweets and the like, which give a bit of anonymity to hide behind.