[Pontiac]

His defense attorneys argued last month that the law was designed to deal with spies, not leakers, and that the prosecution runs afoul of the First Amendment by chilling newsgathering and implicating the reporter who received the information.

Spies give classified information to a single foreign country.

Leakers give classified information to all of the foreign countries.

I don’t see much of a distinction.

The reporter and publisher are accessories to the crime if they knowingly publish classified information.

[Mark17]

I don’t see much of a distinction.

Sounds like leakers are worse than spies.