The CIA Agent Mary O. McCarthy

As former intelligence officer Ray McGovern says, Mary tried to work through the channels (and those within the CIA admit that channels to address concerns for misuse of intelligence are drying up like crazy) and then, faced with the public's need to know some of this terrible stuff, chose to leak it to the media.

I believe each case like this must be taken separately. From the preponderance of what I have read, I would not punish Mary McCarthy. She should be afford whistleblower status.

After all, we'd all like to believe, however naively, that we can go to our government to uncover an injustice. But what happens when the grave, criminal, heinous injustice is being committed by our own government as is increasingly the case?