It is no surprise. We have a two tier justice system. Buy land, buy guns, and learn to grow food.
Waaaaay ahead of you, brother.
What you say is true, and everybody knows it. The cop's kid and the judge's kid get preferential treatment, and this principle applies in spades to insiders prosecuting each other - they don't.
But there is another factor in this case, and that is identifying a crime. Very few leaks of classified information meet the elements of a criminal offense. Leak crimes are very narrowly defined. It's a crime to leak military intelligence, cryptography, or the ID of an undercover spy - and that's about all that constitutes a criminal leak. I've been of a mind, after deliberating on it, that it is not a crime to use the government to non-violently overthrow the government. It is certainly not a crime to lie to the public, that is what the government does constantly, and I think this principle holds no matter how big the lie is, or what powers of the government are used to enforce the lie.
On the plus side, we are witnessing the most powerful palace intrigue the planet has ever produced. Factions of government are duking it out, and the public gets to whiff bits and pieces of it.
On the negative side, our government is fundamentally dishonest and corrupt. It cannot be trusted on anything.