The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to deprive current or former employees of federal intelligence agencies of their pensions if they illegally disclose classified information. The change was proposed after complaints that leakers faced no serious consequences for their actions.
In a dissenting statement , Oregon Senator Ron Wyden wrote that he feared that the new penalties would discourage whistleblowers, “My concern is that giving intelligence agency heads the authority to take away the pensions of individuals who haven’t been formally convicted of any wrongdoing could pose serious problems for the due process rights of intelligence professionals, and particularly the rights of whistleblowers who report waste, fraud and abuse to Congress or Inspectors General.” -db
From the Secrecy News, April 5, 2011 by Steven Aftergood.