Things that don’t matter to the Espionage Act: why he did it; whether he intended to cause harm; whether he did in fact cause harm; whether the docs were properly classified; whether the docs informed public debate; whether he shared them with journalists or dumped them online; whether the docs showed government abuse or fraud or criminality; whether he was careful to disclose only what the public needed to see; whether the leak was defensible, all things considered....
Any reasonable system would care about these things—but ours doesn’t. Maybe we need a better system?
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/what-we-owe-whistleblowers
What We Owe Whistleblowers

@jameeljaffer nah, I kind of liked the first part.
@jameeljaffer That's a really compelling argument. It seems likely to fall on deaf ears, but should be made anyways.
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MAGA have to defend this latest leaker because they know they're going to soon have to defend Trump's espionage too I suppose.
@GreenFire @jameeljaffer probably simpler than that: they nearly always defend their own, no matter what they've done, regardless of the logical/moral pretzels they have to bend themselves into
@jameeljaffer Things that wouldn't help the leaker in question: any of that
@jameeljaffer To that guy, the fact that tfg got away w it was enough.
@jameeljaffer The Espionage Act may not be relevant: a serving member of the military is (and should be) _also_ subject to Uniform Code of Military Justice instead...
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Whether he did it on commission and the whole thing is just a hoax....