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Originally Posted by TarJak
I agree that fairness in this situation was always going to be tough. He signed up to NOT share the information he was able to access, and as already pointed out he's admitted that he has done it, so the real question will be how hard they throw the book at him.
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I think in many ways though, he's almost not even on trial. What's on trial is the government's ability to sue him effectively and come out looking like they've both enforced the law and weren't the villain of the story. And that will prove a lot more difficult than convicting this fish in a barrel.
In all this, of course, his lawyers will no doubt be looking for any opportunity to get him a softer term and having the government and military come out of this looking worse. Otherwise, we already know that the death penalty is not on the table, and that a lot of charges he's being considered for are going to be a long term by default. So whether or not he's going to be spending a large part of his life in jail is hardly a question anymore.