The bottom line is, of course, that McManus and his 
    colleagues took it upon themselves to decide what 
    classified information the public (and our enemies) should
    know about. Bizarrely, he claims that the critical factors
    in his decision were whether the program was legal and had
    adequate safeguards - even though, as I document in a 
    related post, it was indeed legal and had extensive 
    safeguards in place. Thus, his excuses are an apparent 
    cover for some other motivation, as yet unrevealed.