you can also argue that the media did a lot to rehabilitate his reputation in recent years. A lot of people feel sorry for him.
This is about the only good news I've had all week. Clearly, people are starting to understand that information is being taken away from them.
Journalists who cover national security and defense receive classified information all the time. It's virtually routine. If that were the standard for bringing an espionage case, we'd be locking up a lot of people in this town and there would be fewer sources of information.
People clearly think that their federal government is more secretive than state or local governments. And they are probably right. It has become more difficult to get information out of the federal government.