[neverdem]

Prosecuted under what law?

If this isn't criminal, then they need to make it a crime. Disclosing the fact that the NSA was monitoring electronic traffic last December should be prosecuted under the Espioage Act; maybe this as well. Willfully disclosing state secrets should be a crime, especially in a time of war. We executed the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for it.

[Young Scholar]

I'm not sure I'd trust a government that prevented the publicizing of government programs that monitor people in the US (foreign spying is clearly a different matter, especially when US agents' lives may be at risk as a result).

And we're not in a time of war.