It's a binary case with no mitigating circumstances.
Go read the goddam code. The jury is instructed to consider one fact: "Did the defendant share confidential information with a journalist?"
The jury cannot consider cause.
Well, other than the fact that SCOTUS has acknowledged that jury nullification is legal... The big issue is whether or not a jury should be apprised of this fact.
The US does not allow a public interest defense for espionage charges.
How exactly is what he did espionage? If he had attempted to covertly transmit those documents to a foreign power it would be espionage. He gave documents to the press to release to the public. While that's technically a crime because he didn't whistleblow though the proper channels, it's not espionage.
Sorry, that is incorrect. IANAL, but in describing the crime of espionage 18 U.S.C. 798(a) specifically states "Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person... classified information...)
You may not like it, but the definition of the crime does not require release to a foreign government.
Windows has the clearly superior MPC-HC which is free as in freedom and free as in beer...
As long as you don't think you'll ever need support of any kind, perhaps.
Dear heavens - I may have to try Bing News again....
The answer is there is no way to do it. If a computer is on a network it isn't secure and it can't be isolated. A "network" is the anthesis of isolation. If you connect it to the Internet, game over man.
See the pilot episodes of Battlestar Galactica...
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries