Wednesday, July 13, 2005

The Espionage Act

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 37 > ยง 793
d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with ... information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it,...Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Interesting reading, eh? Sound like any situation you've heard of recently?

Mark A. R. Kleinman makes the point that Prosecutor Fitzgerald may be looking at cases under this statute, rather than the much harder to break Intelligence Identities Protection Act.