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FACTBOX-Nine cases of Americans indicted for media leaks
ReutersBy David Ingram and Joseph Ax June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are increasingly seizing on an anti-espionage law to pursue Americans suspected of divulging government secrets to the press, a major shift in the use of a 1917 law that was designed to...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Government, Police Investigations, Crime, Law and Justice, Iran
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Factbox: Nine cases of Americans indicted for media leaks
Reuters(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are increasingly seizing on an anti-espionage law to pursue Americans suspected of divulging government secrets to the press, a major shift in the use of a 1917 law that was designed to stop leaks to America's enemies. Nine...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Police Investigations, Crime, Law and Justice, Iran, Judges
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INTERVIEW-Advice for Snowden from a man who knows: 'Always check six'
ReutersBy Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - Thomas Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the future may hold for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Government, Hong Kong, National Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: Media Industry, Espionage and Intelligence, Government, Freedom of the Press, Police Investigations
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Review: 'War on Whistleblowers' fails to fully sound alarm
Since 2002, filmmaker-activist Robert Greenwald has made a string of vital feature documentaries, including the trenchant exposés "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." His latest, the brief "War on...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Freedom of the Press, Entertainment, George W. Bush, White House
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Feds should return computers to NSA whistleblower
It was shocking to see that the National Security Agency is still persecuting Thomas Drake, the whistleblower who exposed a wasteful computer system and then was prosecuted ("NSA whistle-blowers want seized computers returned," Nov. 18). He and his...Tags: Iraq, National Security, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security Agency, Judges
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Too many secrets
Every 6-year-old knows what a secret is. But apparently our nation's national security establishment does not.
Consider this strange case from earlier this year. On June 8, the National Security Agency, a top-secret government spy agency, heralded the...Tags: Government, Elections, National Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Google Inc.
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NSA whistleblower is an American hero
Since I believe Thomas Drake is a hero for blowing the whistle on incompetence and possible malfeasance at the National Security Agency, I attended his sentencing hearing ("No jail time for ex-NSA official," July 16). I appreciated the fact that U.S....Tags: Government, National Security, National Government, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security Agency
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NSA says classified information found on seized hard drives
The National Security Agency says it found top-secret information on hard drives that were seized in a failed espionage probe, and the agency is refusing to release the computers — despite the continued protests of their owners.
In court filings in...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, Government, Police Investigations, Crime, Law and Justice, The Pentagon
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Former CIA officer charged with leaking classified information
A former CIA officer is facing decades in prison after being charged Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists, the latest in an unprecedented Obama administration crackdown against national security leaks. John Kiriakou, who made news...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, Government, Police Investigations, Crime, Law and Justice, Central Intelligence Agency
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2011: A re-wind
Fast cars zipped around downtown Baltimore streets and, it turns out, the race promoters' financial messes. A robocall that urged voters to relax and stay home led jurors to a vote of their own: guilty of election fraud. We bade farewell to an iconic...Tags: Chicago Elections, Cancer, Arts, Arts and Culture, Corporate Crime
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Cardin wrong on whistleblowers
It was a tremendous disappointment to read that Sen. Ben Cardin is still pursuing that noxious legislation which will only punish whistleblowers that expose government malfeasance ("Cardin's spy bill draws anger," Nov. 25). Presumably, my senator wants to...Tags: Iraq, National Security, Valerie Plame Wilson, National Security Agency, Pakistan
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