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Big article in the New Yorker recently –

The Secret Sharer

Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?

by Jane Mayer

[snip] “. . . . the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks—more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years. . .  “

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer