Originally Posted by debaser

Our government would be remiss if he is not charged with espionage. What he did clearly violates 18 U.S.C. § 798 and he should be punished.

I am all for greater transparency in government, but I also realize that for our national interests to be served there must be a reasonable expectation of privacy in diplomatic communications. There are second and third order effects of revealing this information, and I do not trust an anarchist egomaniac to properly decipher what those are, or act accordingly if he did. This is not a case of whistleblowing, this is simply the dumping of raw information with absolutely no context or prior greivance.