Quote Originally Posted by nynco View Post
Isn't that what Bradley Manning did?
Depends on who you ask. If you ask me, yes he did but his motivation for the illegal release of information was not the same as those I listed. Regardless, he is the potential new face of insider threat, and he wasn't the first to illegally release classified info to media based on a motivation of disagreeing with current political beliefs or military actions. They both have the same consequences, they put human intelligence assets and military at immensely greater risk and most result in deaths of critical assets. Three letter agencies don't publicly release information concerning assets being neutralized as a result of these releases. It compounds the risk and impact of the loss. Occasionally, some of the info gets released like in the Ames and Hanssen cases, but there is a LOT more than never reaches public consumption.