You are certain of that...????"
NO direct national security damage was done with this leak! The future I will not comment on. It depends on the leak, If sources and methods are endangered then someone will need to be sent to jail. Remember now it was only five years ago that Senator Torricelli then a Congressman leaked real bad stuff causing two of our CIA Officers to be killed. His punishment? He was removed from house select and then ran and won the NJ Senate race. So much for justice! BTW the two CIA Officers are still dead. Republicans have done the same thing including Saxby Chambliss.
The politics of national security. All Americans should be alarmed! But they are grazing!
I am in complete agreement with your second sentence. And with your overall concern for the politicization of wartime intelligence matters. By any party...
But how can you be so absolutely certain that this leak did not "endanger...sources and methods"? And skip the hooey about "everybody knows NSA, etc.". Of course they do.
But how do you know that no source or method has been compromised by releasing the specific time & date of specifically worded conversations? And that no enemy has not been made more alert to our eavesdropping abilities? And, thus, more difficult to eavesdrop upon.
And if this one does not, how will you determine whether the next leak does, or does not, endanger sources and methods?
Seems to me that a basic security principle has been violated in this case.