Math Behind Leak Crackdown - 153 Cases, 4 Years, 0 Indictments - NYTimes.com
Is this the right way to respond to Bush Administration incompetence? I think not. Soon after President Obama appointed him director of national intelligence in 2009, Dennis C. Blair called for a tally of the number of government officials or employees who had been prosecuted for leaking national security secrets. He was dismayed by what he found.
Court Tells Reporter to Testify in Case of Leaked C.I.A. Data (July 20, 2013)
Guardian, via Reuters
The charges filed last month against Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, are the seventh leak-related prosecution brought by the
In the previous four years, the record showed, 153 cases had been referred to the Justice Department. Not one had led to an indictment.
That scorecard “was pretty shocking to all of us,” Mr. Blair said. So in a series of phone calls and meetings, he and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. fashioned a more aggressive strategy to punish anyone who leaked national security information that endangered intelligence-gathering methods and sources.
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