Just to be clear, he's charged with espionage, just like most government whistleblowers are, according to a very questionable interpretation of, I think, a 1914

Just to be clear, he's charged with espionage, just like most government whistleblowers are, according to a very questionable interpretation of, I think, a 1914 espionage act, that previously wasn't interpreted like that at all. What he did was clearly not espionage, because he didn't sell info to a foreign country, he released it to the American public. And if I recall correctly, he made sure not all of it was released, and it was redacted as responsibly as he could. That's not how espionage works. Charging these whistleblowers with espionage is a flagrant abuse of the law.