A lot of 20/20 hindsight smugness going on re: Intercept paper reveal, but what's scarier to me is how easy a mistake it would be to make.
There is a reason we don't **ever** leak at $BUREAU. We have some special non-judicial punishment normally reserved for the military in the mix before we get handed over to the courts. Our bureau chief can strip us of job & pension in certain cases without MSPB or court review prior to prosecution without any chance of reinstatement if later found innocent.