7 Jul
2016
7 Jul
'16
6:53 a.m.
Slightly more on topic thread closure... https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05/washington-has-been-obsessed-with-punish... People who leak to media outlets for the selfless purpose of informing the public – Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Drake, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden – face decades in prison. Those who leak for more ignoble and self-serving ends... are usually spared if they are sufficiently Important-in-DC. But if there is to be anything positive that can come from this lowly affair, perhaps [they] might start demanding the same reasonable leniency and prosecutorial restraint for everyone else who isn’t Hillary Clinton.