Oh, the irony. The ironies. Sometimes you're sorry you probed.
Such as when you're looking for the leaker of the Stuxnet program--a "very damaging" leak, says one intelligence specialist; one of "devastating consequences," says another (even though Iran already knew Who Done It)--and instead of a Rand Paulian youngster possessed of a possibly overactive libertarian imagination, you find a retired four-star Marine general, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was "one of the president’s 'inner circle' of national security advisors."
"[T]he Justice Department has not made a final decision on whether to charge" the general, reports Michael Isikoff. But if the Justice Department does, it really must charge him, fair is fair, under the Espionage Act--the Great Equalizer, the atomic bomb of all intelligence investigations, to be deployed against the naughty and nice alike.
And what gripes your butt even more, assuming you're sitting atop the Justice Department, is to find that "prosecutors were able to identify [the] suspected leaker without resorting to a secret subpoena of the phone records of New York Times reporters."
Damn! Foiled again, in a way.