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i not only have thomas drake case supporting my view, i have every fucking espionage case every made against anyone in the usaunder 18 U.S.C. § 793(e) . hahahahahahahahaha
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Drake is one of four individuals in the history of the United States who has been charged specifically with “willful retention” of “national defense” information under 18 U.S.C. § 793(e). This particular portion of the Espionage Act was created in 1950 during the Second Red Scare, as part of the McCarran Internal Security Act.
Anthony Russo and Daniel Ellsberg were the first to be prosecuted for the “retention” of what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers which Ellsberg gave to The New York Times, eventually resulting in another landmark Espionage Act case in 1971, New York Times Co. v. United States. The prosecution of Russo and Ellsberg was dismissed in 1972 because of government misconduct.
The second prosecution was of Samuel Loring Morison in 1985, a Navy analyst who sold satellite photographs to Jane's Defense Weekly; he was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton.
The third was the American Israel Public Affairs Committee case in 2005 (United States v. Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman). All charges against Rosen and Weissman were dropped in 2009.
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