[GK3]

The fact that the late 2019 SCIF breach didn't result in appropriate consequences to those involved makes a mockery of the (much-needed) rules and secrecy.  Tenured/career military and civilian staff have been fired/discharged/terminated for much less.

IMO heads should indeed roll. However, it won't happen unless and until both the Congress and the President agree and ensure that they and their direct reports must function according to the stringent rules that their lower tier subordinates ostensibly follow. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it turns out the recent leak was due to carelessness/malfeasance  at a lower level, but if the upper echelon had appropriately restricted the "need to know", the lower level leak of so much disparate information would be impossible. No one person at the lower levels would have access to such a broad range of information.

Unfortunately, the current large disclosure could be from an accumulation of data by Russia or other such actors that obscures the source(s).

I hope the leaked data is general enough so that Russian Counter Intel people can't identify the leakers at their end.  If they can, our leaker may well end up immediately responsible for the death of the Russian source.  In the good old days, Russians getting caught spying for us generally got a one way ticket to the basement in Lubyanka.  Should that happen it will throw a pail of very cold water on our future efforts to replace the lost source or sources.  No one wants to talk and die, they would rather just keep their mouths shut.

[GK3]

The fact that the late 2019 SCIF breach didn't result in appropriate consequences to those involved makes a mockery of the (much-needed) rules and secrecy.  Tenured/career military and civilian staff have been fired/discharged/terminated for much less.

IMO heads should indeed roll. However, it won't happen unless and until both the Congress and the President agree and ensure that they and their direct reports must function according to the stringent rules that their lower tier subordinates ostensibly follow. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it turns out the recent leak was due to carelessness/malfeasance  at a lower level, but if the upper echelon had appropriately restricted the "need to know", the lower level leak of so much disparate information would be impossible. No one person at the lower levels would have access to such a broad range of information.

Unfortunately, the current large disclosure could be from an accumulation of data by Russia or other such actors that obscures the source(s).

I hope the leaked data is general enough so that Russian Counter Intel people can't identify the leakers at their end.  If they can, our leaker may well end up immediately responsible for the death of the Russian source.  In the good old days, Russians getting caught spying for us generally got a one way ticket to the basement in Lubyanka.  Should that happen it will throw a pail of very cold water on our future efforts to replace the lost source or sources.  No one wants to talk and die, they would rather just keep their mouths shut.