GOOD QUESTION: Angelo Codevilla: Why Are Clapper and Brennan Not In Jail? “The clearest of all the laws concerning U.S. intelligence is Section 798, 18 U.S. Code—widely known in the Intelligence Community as ‘the Comint Statute,’ or ‘the 10 and 10.’ Unlike other laws, this is a ‘simple liability’ law. Motivation, context, identity, matter not at all. You violate it, you are guilty and are punished accordingly.”
But: “Brennan and Clapper continue as living proof that the United States has a dual system of justice. The example of their impunity speaks louder than any speech, and reassures their leftist successors in the intelligence agencies that their channel to the Times and Post is as safe as ever.”