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http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/02/14/a-win-for-the-deep-state/

These leaks are clearly illegal: plenty of civilians have been prosecuted and jailed for much less. But legality is not something that worries the CIA and the national security bureaucracy, because they’re above the law. And you don’t bother with legality when you’re engaged in an attempted coup.
Flynn was sacrificed because he is pro detente.