The Importance of Motive in the Disclosure of Top Secret Documents

There's a big difference between being careless with classified information the way president Trump is accused of and having some malicious motive. President Obama's former CI director was accused of when he shared genuinely sensitive documents with his mistress in order to enable her to write a adoring biography of him. Leon Panetta shared top secret information about the operation that led to Osama bin Laden's capture because he wanted filmmakers in Hollywood to be able to make a pre-election hagiography about President Obama, says Peter Bergen.