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To: STARWISE
She's wrong. Read this .....http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030400867_pf.html

The Justice Department also argued in a court filing last month that reporters can be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act for receiving and publishing classified informationThe brief was filed in support of a case against two pro-Israeli lobbyists, who are the first nongovernment officials to be prosecuted for receiving and distributing classified information.....

The Espionage Act makes it a crime for a government official with access to "national defense information" to communicate it intentionally to any unauthorized person. A 1950 amendment aimed at Soviet spying broadened the law, forbidding an unauthorized recipient of the information to pass it on, or even to keep it to himself.

1,194 posted on 04/21/2006 8:53:38 PM PDT by blogblogginaway (..)
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Good .. and did their argument carry the day? Or will it be in the hands of the Supremes eventually?


1,203 posted on 04/21/2006 8:59:09 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author:)
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To: blogblogginaway

bttt


1,264 posted on 04/21/2006 9:56:50 PM PDT by nopardons
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