[CaptainCrunch]

But he wasn't defending the constitution, he clearly wasn't following the second phase of it.

If you combine it with the signed security clearance documents he wasn't following that at all.

Plus how is leaking classified documents defending the consititution at all.

You could make the argument if he went through the levels of command structure, then not getting satisfaction of action, he went to his congressman or a senator, then like I said maybe you can make a case for what he did.

But it sounds like his first step was the leak. That breaks his security clearance. It also breaks the obeying of orders. Since the classification of documents is an implied order to protect that information from falling into the wrong hands which is wikileaks.