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.
To: blogblogginaway
Good .. and did their argument carry the day? Or will it be in the hands of the Supremes eventually?
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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:)
To: blogblogginaway
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