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&gt; The rate at which this country is prosecuting whistleblowers, leakers, and journalists is astounding. 

I'm not sure people understand what is at stake here. Sterling leaked the existence of an operation to screw up Iran's nuclear program. The journalist then reported on that. And guess what, Iran now knows about it. If that happened any time from the mid-1700s to the 1950s, the guy would have been executed as a traitor. It's not astounding. It's astounding that anyone thinks it's okay to take oaths of secrecy and then tell *New York Times Reporters* who then put that info in a fucking book!

&gt; "The Justice Department said that Mr. Sterling’s disclosures compromised an important C.I.A. operation and jeopardized the life of a spy."

The defense did not disagree with that. Their defense was "that other guy got less." But Petreus, while he totally gave classified info to his sexy lady, she was authorized to read classified info (just not all that he gave her), and she didn't go and write a book and publish it, putting peoples' lives at risk or operations at risk. No one has any idea what Petreus told her (other than those who prosecuted the case).
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