> If you believe that it's in the public interest for this information to be released Public official A promised to do so, publicly and repeatedly. Public off

> If you believe that it's in the public interest for this information to be released Public official A promised to do so, publicly and repeatedly. Public official A ostensibly earned some level of goodwill for declaring that. I kind of feel like the leaker held up A's end of the contract for him. Put it another way: If I published an ad on a website you visited promising "$500 just for clicking on this link", then you tracked me down and took the $500, would anyone feel bad for me? It would have been an illegal act, but it would hardly feel like a perversion of justice.