Let's say you're a Politburo member who has developed serious moral qualms about what your regime is doing. You have three options: 1) Stick with business as

Let's say you're a Politburo member who has developed serious moral qualms about what your regime is doing. You have three options: 1) Stick with business as usual. Go along to get along. 2) Quietly retire to "spend more time with your family" or for "health reasons." 3) Use your position to betray your country as a spy, working for what is arguably a greater good. Option 3) is what this Politburo member went with. Just like delivering pizzas, installing roof shingles, or maintaining power lines, espionage and treason comes with certain risks. This is true whether you're working for the good guys or the bad guys. This is one of those risks. He knew, or could reasonably have been expected to know, what he was doing. I agree with the comment from the other thread: Wikileaks is putting the whole US government through a full-body scanner. Frankly, I'm tired of governments having all the illegal search-and-seizure fun. Now we get to play, too.