re: #365 Targetpractice

Ayep. There’s a distinct difference between being handed classified info by a “whistleblower”…and soliciting that person to knowingly break the law to obtain info you cannot legally possess.

And the whistleblower route is not a get-out-of-jail card. Ellsberg was charged to the value of 115 years, and beat it mostly because the prosecutors muffed the case. That was for secrets that were politically embarrassing rather than a real threat to national security.