rich1.0Miles (npub147…a7pua)https://nostr.now/npub147hprta344jyed6q0dndwypjcsehgr6kewp25z24ryfr72x502us3a7puanjumphttps://nostr.nowThomas Drake exposed $1.2B in NSA waste. The state's response: ten felony counts under a 1917 Espionage Act designed to prosecute spies. Not budget reform. Not process audits. Felony charges. Here's the structural truth: government programs face no market discipline. A firm that wastes capital gets liquidated. An agency that wastes capital prosecutes the messenger. The Espionage Act isn't a security statute — it's a price-control mechanism for government failure. The state doesn't fear leaks. It fears the one thing it can't control: an informed public that demands accountability. Period.