Laurence Tribe, a Harvard professor who is considered to be the foremost liberal authority on constitutional law in the US and who taught the subject to President Barack Obama, told the Guardian that the charge could set a worrying precedent. He said: „Charging any individual with the extremely grave offense of ‚aiding the enemy‘ on the basis of nothing beyond the fact that the individual posted leaked information on the web and thereby ‚knowingly gave intelligence information‘ to whoever could gain access to it there, does indeed seem to break dangerous new ground.“