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  • The ambiguous legal framework governing espionage dates back to World War I and seems to address only spying done on behalf of foreign states. — “Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947 – 2007,” [PDF] Katherine L. Herbig, Defense Personnel Security Research Center

    Primary Sources 2008

  • The ambiguous legal framework governing espionage dates back to World War I and seems to address only spying done on behalf of foreign states. — “Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947 – 2007,” [PDF] Katherine L. Herbig, Defense Personnel Security Research Center

    Primary Sources 2008

  • Mukasey: I ' d be looking at two sections of what ' s called the Espionage Act, one of which criminalizes the circulation--the publication of defense-related information, and the other of which criminalizes the publication of classified information.

    Assange in the Dock? 2010

  • And as a result, it may not be a surprise that my signature perfume is called Espionage

    Archive 2006-05-01 Ayala Sender 2006

  • And there was a thing called the Espionage Act had been passed, or the Sedition Act. And many prominent people who were not socialists said he should be pardoned.

    1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs- The Election That Changed the Country� 2004

  • It is surely a significant fact that, in the face of the late almost incredible proceedings under the so-called Espionage Act and other such laws, the only objections heard of came either from the persons directly affected -- nine-tenths of them Socialists, pacifists, or citizens accused of German sympathies, and hence without any rights whatever in American law and equity -- or from a small group of professional libertarians, chiefly naturalized aliens.

    The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind George Jean Nathan 1920

  • But the indictment of Sterling - for allegedly violating a World War One era law known as the Espionage Act -- could now lead to yet another court battle over whether the reporter will be forced to testify at Sterling's trail.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • It didn't stick the first time; but, as I warned, since this tactic is such a standard part of the tool-kit for closing an open society -- 'Step Ten' of the 'Ten Steps' to a closed society: 'Rename Dissent 'Espionage' and Criticism of Government, 'Treason' -- I knew, based on my study of closing societies, that this tactic would resurface.

    Naomi Wolf: Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States Naomi Wolf 2010

  • It didn't stick the first time; but, as I warned, since this tactic is such a standard part of the tool-kit for closing an open society -- 'Step Ten' of the 'Ten Steps' to a closed society: 'Rename Dissent 'Espionage' and Criticism of Government, 'Treason' -- I knew, based on my study of closing societies, that this tactic would resurface.

    Naomi Wolf: Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States Naomi Wolf 2010

  • It didn't stick the first time; but, as I warned, since this tactic is such a standard part of the tool-kit for closing an open society -- 'Step Ten' of the 'Ten Steps' to a closed society: 'Rename Dissent 'Espionage' and Criticism of Government, 'Treason' -- I knew, based on my study of closing societies, that this tactic would resurface.

    Naomi Wolf: Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States Naomi Wolf 2010

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