I'd be curious to hear why you make a distinction between leaking for the public interest and leaking because of a disagreement with an organization's politics? Presumably most people hold their political views because they believe they believe those views are in the best public interest?
Hammond didn't leak information about Stratfor! He attacked them. His actions were straightforwardly criminal, in a way that few people on HN have any problem recognizing, and his case is only blurred by articles like this that attempt to conflate what he did with what he believed.
"My political philosophy says this is good for the kind of society I want to live in" is a get out of jail free card? What about the people who don't want to live in your kind of society?
