http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/1...risoner-x.html

Numerous friends and soldiers who served with him in the Israeli army have confirmed that Zygier, whose parents were prominent in Jewish causes in Australia, joined the Mossad and was proud of his work as a spy.

"He liked to talk about it. Sometimes it was hard to take him seriously, because you thought, ‘Why would a spy admit to being a spy?’ But yeah, he was really proud," said Adam, who served with Zygier as a combat soldier and asked not to be further identified out of fear of breaking Israel’s censorship law. "Over the years he would come and go, so part of me thought, ‘Well, maybe he is a spy.’ But that’s always a joke with somebody who travels a lot in Israel."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/politi...er-seals-obama

Former special forces officers slam Obama over leaks on bin Laden killing

"As a citizen, it is my civic duty to tell the president to stop leaking information to the enemy," says Benjamin Smith, identified in the video as a former Navy SEAL. "It will get Americans killed."
http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/pres...rt-cia-officer

Kiriakou admitted that, through a series of e-mails with Journalist A, he disclosed the full name of a CIA officer (referred to as “Covert Officer A” in court records) whose association with the CIA had been classified for more than two decades. In addition to identifying the officer for the journalist, Kiriakou also provided information to the journalist that linked the officer to a CIA counterterrorism program known as the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation (RDI) Program and a particular RDI operation.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but the links above are only the tip of the iceberg. We always had spies in our ranks, but this is different, there seems to have emerged a culture I'm currently labeling "Generation Talk" who feel compelled and entitled to leak classified information to the media. I doubt it started with Wikileaks, but if you look at the books published, and the books attempted to be published since that time revealing current classified information this is a disturbing trend. It cuts across all fields to include the military, law enforcement, intelligence, Congress, and the White House. Secret now seems to mean something cool to talk to the media about.