Well I should point out that he compromised an ongoing investigation. There is also some speculation as to what were his motives. It is a well know fact that he was passed up for promotion at the FBI by Nixon and must have been pissed off about that. Maeglamor, things are not as simple as they appear. People have agendas and biases and honestly, and all due respect, it is ludicrous to think that these agendas and biases would not manifest themselves in such a manner as this. So that said, anyone who thinks that this man is a patriot ought to accept the fact that Novek and Linda Trip, those that leak and informed regaurding clinton's inability to tell the truth, are in fact just as great American's, public and former public servants regaurdless of their obvious vendetas.