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Sen. Rand Paul Proposes Dumping Entire Espionage Act

The law has been abused to prosecute citizens for reasons other than spying. But there are better examples than Trump to highlight problems.

Reason

You don't have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken

The federal court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate has brought renewed attention to the obscure but infamous law known as the Espionage Act of 1917. A section of the law was listed as one of three potential violations under Justice Department investigation.

The Conversation

Sen. Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act amid the Mar-a-Lago investigation

This is the first time in U.S. history a former president has been investigated for possibly violating the 1917 law. But it's not the first time the Espionage Act has been under scrutiny, experts say.

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Rand Paul mocked for call to repeal Espionage Act cited in Trump FBI warrant

‘The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment,’ Paul tweets

The Independent UK

Rand Paul calls for repeal of Espionage Act after Trump FBI search

"It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment."

Axios

Donald Trump investigated for possible violation of Espionage Act

The FBI search warrant reveals the former president was holding highly classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate

Evening Standard

FBI seized top-secret classified documents from Trump’s estate

WASHINGTON — The FBI seized classified material from Donald Trump in a search that has thrown US politics into turmoil, and court filings revealed the former president may be under investigation for mishandling government records and potentially compromising national security information.

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Unsealed court documents show the FBI was looking for evidence Trump violated the Espionage Act and other laws – here’s how the documents seized show possible wrongdoing

The FBI recovered confidential and top-secret items from Mar-a-Lago during its Aug. 8, 2022, search of the estate – pointing to former President Donald Trump’s potential violation of several federal laws.

The Conversation

Donald Trump's home raided by FBI over suspicions he violated the Espionage Act

FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion during a raid on August 9, with the US Attorney General confirming he approved the decision to ask a court for a search warrant

Daily Mirror

What is the Espionage Act that Trump is being investigated under?

The former president has been indicted under a controversial law passed in 1917 to prevent spying and leaking of government documents

The Independent UK

Warrant indicates Espionage Act violated

Trump first leaked the unredacted warrant — with the names of FBI agents — to Breitbart

Salon

FBI removed classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, is investigating possible Espionage Act violations

WASHINGTON — FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents — including some marked top secret and meant to only be available in special government facilities — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday.

Los Angeles Times

Mar-a-Lago search focused on espionage, destruction of records - Roll Call

Trump is under investigation for violations of the Espionage Act, as well as obstruction of justice, according to documents unsealed Friday.

Roll Call

Is Trump being investigated over national security concerns under the Espionage Act?

Potential criminal violations could be more severe than simple breach of records law

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Reuters

Kosovo detains Russian journalist at the border

Kosovo's interior minister said on Saturday it has arrested a Russian journalist at the border on suspicion that she could be a spy, and security authorities were searching "for her intentions."The country's interior minister Xhelal Svecla named the journalist as Daria Aslamova."Many countries have proven that she was engaged in…

Salon

Whistleblowers and the road to tyranny

Daniel Hale is in a supermax prison for telling the truth about America's drone war. That prison awaits us all

Reason

Proposed Bill Would Protect Journalists Like Julian Assange From Espionage Charges

A senator and two congressmen team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Says it Arrested Swedish Citizen on Espionage Charges

Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Saturday that it had arrested a Swedish citizen on espionage charges, the official IRNA news agency reported without naming the person detained. It was not clear if the report was referring to the same individual the Swedish foreign ministry said in May had been detained…

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Iran arrests Swedish citizen on espionage charges

Iran said on Saturday that it had arrested a Swedish citizen on espionage charges, the official IRNA news agency reported, after a court in Stockholm sentenced a former Iranian official for war crimes earlier this month.

The Guardian - UK

Frederick Barclay received £800,000 to settle Ritz espionage case, court told

Long-running feud between family members however cost businessman and his daughter £7.5m in legal fees

Reuters

Israel's Supreme Court rules 'disloyal' citizens can be stripped of status

Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the state can revoke the citizenship of people who carry out actions that constitute a breach of trust against the state, including terrorism, espionage or treason.

Tribune News Service

Russo brothers, stars including Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans talk ‘The Gray Man’

Ryan Gosling credits “an amazing stunt” team for helping get him ready to film “The Gray Man,” a big-budget, action-packed espionage thriller from Netflix in which he stars as highly skilled CIA operative Sierra Six, better known simply as “Six.”

Zenger

Pro-Russian, So-Called DPR Shows Off Experimental Anti-Drone Gun

The images were obtained from the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on Friday, July 15.

Los Angeles Times

Review: Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans play empty spy games in Netflix's 'The Gray Man'

The last time Ryan Gosling was sent to murder a guy in Bangkok was about nine years ago, when he starred in Nicolas Winding Refn's sick-puppy art-thriller "Only God Forgives." I kind of loathed that movie, though it did have awesome red wallpaper and a hilariously foul-mouthed Kristin Scott Thomas,…

France 24

Ex-CIA coder convicted of espionage over theft of leaked WikiLeaks secrets

A former CIA software engineer was convicted Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.

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