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you mentioned daniel elsberg. as you mentioned, that was thrown out and he received no jail time accordingly. but other big prosecutions of leakers in the national security context have also had relatively lower prison terms in sam morison, two years. thomas drake, who was also a surveillance leaker, struck a plea deal in 2011 with no prison time. others getting anywhere from 20 months to 2 1/2 years. so as people try to process this information, the actual sentence of 35 years isn t double or triple what we ve seen in the recent era, it s, you know, literally ten times. that shows that even though the judge rejected some of these claims and we now have a judicial finding from a military court that there was not grave national security harm, the country can continue to debate that, but it s pretty interesting to have a military judge find that was not the
0 saying there isn t a spigot, that it doesn t just go off and on. if you watch these press briefings, they re impossible to follow. nobody can understand what the white house s position is. i think the reason is, it s hard to articulate. jonathan, let s transition to the budget battles. obviously, as you know, the gop divide over the budget, it s entertaining to watch play out, but in all seriousness, this could be quite problematic and dangerous come the fall. you have republicans that reject the idea of a government shutdown outright. senator john mccain has said over and over this is a nonstarter. you also have conservative senators like mike lee and ted cruz who won t back down. let s take a listen to what senator ted cruz had to say. what happens next is president obama and harry reid are going to scream and yell those mean, nasty republicans are threatening to shut down the comfortable staking themselves on that, particularly if it s framed in the context of obama care, of s