I’m hesitant to say anything about the Thomas Drake prosecution because Siobhan Gorman is a friend and a respected colleague. Luckily, Glenn Greenwald and John Cole say what needs to be said. Glenn:

[H]ere you have the Obama DOJ in all its glory:  no prosecutions (but rather full-scale immunity extended) for war crimes, torture, and illegal spying.  For those crimes, we must Look Forward, Not Backward.  But for those poor individuals who courageously blow the whistle on oozing corruption, waste and illegal surveillance by the omnipotent public-private Surveillance State: the full weight of the “justice system” comes crashing down upon them with threats of many years in prison.

I should have put this together with last night’s Eric Holder speech to the Constitution Project.