I think it depends, if the information was classified appropriately the person who ends up with it will see that the information was not intended for them and t

I think it depends, if the information was classified appropriately the person who ends up with it will see that the information was not intended for them and that it obviously contains information of potential national significance blah blah A court may we able to argue that you knowingly distributed information that you were not authorised to see and in doing so was malicious. I agree with you, I'm just thinking of the optics.