Can appreciate your zeal, but ...

from the post:

unauthorized dissemination of intelligence data, a felony charge that carries up to five years in prison.

notice warning that it should not be shared or released publicly, and that doing so would violate Iowa code.

Is the argument that there is no such thing as privileged information at the state level?
So Iowa (or any other state) cannot pass such a law?

for letting it happen?

People who are authorized to have or use confidential/classified information have an obligation to keep that information safe. It just struck me that the cop didn’t do enough to keep that information safe and that walking around with it in his back pocket was begging for something like this to happen.

laying on the lunch counter.

"Covering" for the LE officer is ... kind of a stretch.

On a related front -- IA's Republican dominated statehouse has been at the forefront in "Ag-gag" laws -- repeatedly passing laws aimed at the reporting and recording of "meat industry" practices and abuses. Most of these efforts have been struck down or stayed by the courts -- but they keep trying! All of which is to say that the state is not currently a bastion of a freedom of information or "sunshine" line of thought. So -- prosecuting leakers? Not that far removed from current sentiment.

Tran? Not guilty, unless he knew how it was obtained.