How you'll know America is on the right road

Reuters has just reported:

A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on Friday for passing U.S. defense information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and for sharing classified information with an Israeli diplomat.

Lawrence Franklin, 59, who previously worked as an analyst in the office of the secretary of defense, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis. Franklin had pleaded guilty in October to sharing the information and also to illegally possessing classified documents
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Michelle Malkin reacts:

There should be harsh consequences for illegally leaking classified information, whatever the intentions of the leaker. If people on both sides of the aisle would be more consistent about this, our country would be a hell of a lot better off.

I agree with what Malkin says. I also think America would be a lot better off:

if the people in government who disclosed national security secrets to New York Times reporter James Risen were given long prison sentences;

and Risen and others at the Times who jeopardized national security were prosecuted and sent to jail;

and when the public heard about all of that there was outrage that the sentences weren't long enough;

and Congress agreed to pass legislation with tougher penalties for disclosing national secrets;

which led Sen. Hillary Clinton to say, "The Bush administration isn't doing enough to track down and prosecute people who call themselves "whistleblowers" but are really just betrayers who put us all at greater risk."

If all of that started happening, you'd know America was on the right road.