Just because it pisses the public off, that is no excuse for anyone to leak information at will, let alone be pardoned for it. By that logic, anyone who freed

Just because it pisses the public off, that is no excuse for anyone to leak information at will, let alone be pardoned for it. By that logic, anyone who freed slaves in the South during the Civil War shouldn't have been pardoned by the states whose laws they broke and prosecuted to the fullest extent.