[adrenalinelol]

He should be in jail for the rest of his life (look at Chelsea Manning's sentence, if we are going to be consistent), but he was given a slap on the wrist: CIA directory trading secrets to his mistress? It sounds like a movie script, but now it's the public record.

[ajmurmann]

What makes the difference even more stunning is that Snowden and Manning released information because they thought it was the right thing to do. Patreus did it knowing it was the wrong thing.