> it should never have been classified in the first place
The system is big with lots of moving cogs in it. The bigger it is the higher the chance one of the cogs will pull a Manning. They see the idiocy and waste. Classifying stuff that is shameful and sweeping it under the carpet works for a while, but soon enough someone will say fuck it, this is going against the principles of my country and my moral standards and they'll leak the shit out of it.
From their side, it is imperative to persecute and punish whistle-blowers, leakers as harshly as possible. In order to set examples.
The system is big with lots of moving cogs in it. The bigger it is the higher the chance one of the cogs will pull a Manning. They see the idiocy and waste. Classifying stuff that is shameful and sweeping it under the carpet works for a while, but soon enough someone will say fuck it, this is going against the principles of my country and my moral standards and they'll leak the shit out of it.
From their side, it is imperative to persecute and punish whistle-blowers, leakers as harshly as possible. In order to set examples.