Description: Mostly about society, politics, strange things, spin, words, bad ideas, religion, villains, history, the economy and me venting my opinions,
Today, I am two separate gorillas.
So the Pentagon leaker, turns out to have been (apparently) an immature nerd trying just to impress a bunch of teenage boys with his edgelord antics ,* rather than a guy who sold secrets for money, or a Philby/Maclean-style sleeper agent recruited by ideological fellow travellers from abroad.
The aspect I find more interesting than the confused motivations of a messed-up 21 year old was raised in this piece by Daniel Drezner . Drezner lists the material that we know has been leaked and concludes that it seems pretty "meh":