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In reply to the discussion: President Obama Indicts Sixth Whistleblower Under the Espionage Act [View all]saras
(6,670 posts)They DO NOT prosecute everyone that leaks classified information, not even MOST of them. Just whistleblowers.
Can selectively enforce laws. Do it all the time, otherwise Cheney, Rumsfeld, and 5/9 of the SCOTUS would be in prison for treason, someone would be in jail for every single robosigned mortgage, and GWB would be spending his life in jail for cocaine and never would have been president in the first place.
And just how, exactly, would Bradley Manning, say, be a whistleblower (i.e.get the contents of the information he discovered, not mere rumors of it, to a public large enough to force action against the entire force of the organization he was exposing) without leaking classified information? Step-by-step instructions, please. NO ONE in the US military, up to and including the POTUS, was competent to receive the information, as demonstrated by the whistleblowing prosecution.