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David Petraeus - Leaking General
Commander of U.S. and ISAF forces in Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan. Later CIA Director.
2011: Provided War diary leak to Broadwell for use in his published biography.
2011: Military justice: No action taken.
2012: Resigned from CIA November 2012. Pled guilty in federal civilian court to misdemeanor leak charge in March 2015 avoiding felony charges, sentenced to two years probation and $100,000 fine.
Paula Broadwell - Author Lost Promotion, Clearance
Petraeus biographer, adulterous lover, and deputy director of the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, greater Boston, MA.
2011: Received War diary leak from Petraeus, for use in published biography of Petraeus.
2012: Investigated by FBI for leak and accessing classified information. Stripped of security clearance and Army promotion revoked.
Chelsea (Bradley) Manning - Leaking Private
Army Private assigned Iraq.
2010: Provided Iraq War Log leaks to Assange and WikiLeaks.
2010: Military justice: Sentenced to 35 years at the maximum-security U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Julian Assange - Publisher 14 Year Hunt, 5 Served
From 2006, author, later publisher of WikiLeaks. Separately indicted in 2010 for sexual assault in Sweden.
2010: Published Iraq War Log leaks on WikiLeaks.
2019: Unsealed indictment charged Espionage Act violations. Served 5 years in UK prison during extradition proceedings. Pled guilty to US charge of disclosing classified information in 2024 for UK time served.
United States Incarceration Rates Have Skyrocketed Since The Early 1980s
Countries With The World’s Highest Incarceration Rates Among All 193 UN Countries:
1. El Salvador (drugs and gang violence)
2. Cuba (political dissent)
3. Rwanda (ethnic violence, political dissent
4. Turkmenistan (family dictatorship, former Soviet republic)
5. United States
6. Panama (drugs and gang violence)
You are far less likely to be incarcerated as a result of contact with the police in Russia (74% less likely) and in China (62% less likely) than in the United States. China, with four times more people and a somewhat higher crime rate, incarcerates about 77,000 fewer people in total than the United States.
Sources: Sentencing Project.org, DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics.