That’s a very broad category. For instance I didn’t consider WikiLeaks to be a true menace until they clearly revealed themselves as a conduit for the Russian attack on our election (a recent development, don’t think it was the case before 2015 but Russian direction could have been and we just didn’t know). WikiLeaks won’t be over here planting bombs and Al Queda, ISIS, etc. will if they can.
We have to change our view of secrecy and classification. There is a difference between revealing policy or intent and revealing techniques. There is a serious danger of revealing techniques but there is also a beta-test factor at work in techniques being revealed. what’s needed more than anything are contingency plans. Everything has to be done on the basis that it may be revealed. Assume there’s an invisible expiration date on every secret and that the secret will eventually out itself. The more sordid, the more likely and the shorter the shelf-life. So for instance if a vital foreign source is in sudden danger by a public revelation, there should be a plan in place to get them and their immediate family out of there ASAP. Cervantes brings up the case of Daniel Ellsberg. I’d second that in classing ALL revelations and whistle-blowing as automatically treasonous.
As for those damned Soviet Republican enablers in the Trump administration, Congress and the media (Russian Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and almost all of Fox News), I wouldn’t lose any sleep if an angry mob hung them from lamp-posts. The weird thing is they don’t view it as treason at all, we’re almost 30 years removed from the Cold War but, in my mid-50s and they’re all my age or older, it’s like they grew up in a different country. They should think as I do that, even though Moscow has more billionaires right now than NYC, the Russian government is never trustworthy. Trump & Co. doesn’t see borders, all they see is money, “A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby”, as Paul Simon sang. And Trumpco is in their debt.
As for the enablers, all they see is the deregulation and tax cuts that Trumpco might still deliver. Thank God for their incompetence, but man do things suck right now.