#espionageact — Public Fediverse posts
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John Bolton, a former national security adviser of U.S. President Donald Trump who later became one of his most vocal critics, has been charged with mishandling classified information. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/world/crime-legal/bolton-indicted-classified-information-mishandle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #johnbolton #espionageact #justicedepartment #petehegseth
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Today’s reminder that nobody from signalgate has been charged for their violations of the Espionage Act. Don’t let this go quietly. 👊🏽🇺🇸🔥
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16. Seppellendole in sacchi dei rifiuti nella discarica della città,in una posizione segnalata da una vecchia stufa smaltita in discarica, il fratello di #DanielEllsberg lo salvò da una condanna con l'#EspionageAct,che poteva essere anche la pena di morte,ma...
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I ADORE that the #trump administration is at such a loss as to what to say about the #signal situation, that Trump said he didn't even know about it when first pressed on it.
He definitely did. He was acting like a kid who was caught with chocolate on his face, and didn't know what to say to mom with an empty cookie jar.
Everyone else has a similar reaction in his cabinet.
Using a third party app for TOP SECRETS violated the #espionageact
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#politics #usa #trump #hegseth #securitybreach #breech #signal Hilary Clinton #espionageact Heather Cox Richardson National Security Breech 3/25/2025
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#politics #usa #trump #hegseth #securitybreach #breech #signal #espionageact Heather Cox Richardson Reactions to National Security Breech 3/25/2025
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Crazy story!
"I have never seen a breach quite like this. It is not uncommon for #NationalSecurity officials to communicate on Signal. But the #app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters—not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a #journalist has been invited to such a discussion.
(🎁) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=cg1XdqsyWjCIPVWKLR2XU2qBGReP4mgP26Vn__JZ7Rk
Conceivably, #Waltz, by coordinating a national-security-related action over Signal, may have violated several provisions of the #EspionageAct, which governs the handling of “national defense” information, according to several national-security lawyers interviewed by my colleague Shane Harris for this story. Harris asked them to consider a hypothetical scenario in which a senior U.S. official creates a Signal thread for the express purpose of sharing information with Cabinet officials about an active military operation. He did not show them the actual #Signal messages or tell them specifically what had occurred." -
[#Podcast] #LawAndDisorder, September 9, 2024
#September11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked
"It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The #GeorgeWBush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged #EndlessWars against #Afghanistan and #Iraq, pushed through Congress the USA #PatriotAct, opened the notorious detention center at #GuantanamoBay which remain to this day, rounded up Muslims and South Asians for #IndefiniteDetention, initiated a wave of #CivilLiberties and #HumanRights violations, and committed wholesale torture against detainees and others.
"To assess the legacy of 9/11 and the lessons learned and the lessons overlooked, we’ve invited someone who was at the center of Bush’s #WarOnTerror. John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News.
"In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the #CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by President George W. Bush. He knew what he was talking about. In 2002, he was responsible for the capture in Pakistan of #AbuZubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda.
"He became the sixth #whistleblower indicted by the #Obama administration under the #EspionageAct of 1917 — a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his revelations.
"In 2012, the #RalphNader family honored #Kiriakou with the Joe A. Callaway Award for #CivicCourage, an award given to individuals who 'advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.' He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers."
Listen:
https://lawanddisorder.org/category/criminalizing-dissent/#CIASponsoredTerror #CivilRights, #CriminalizingDissent #ExtraordinaryRendition #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #IraqWar #BushAdministraiton #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolation #TargetingMuslims #Torture #WarResister #Whistleblowers #CivilLiberties #CivilLibertiesRadio #EndlessWar
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Using my #FOIA documentation,I've reconstructed how from Aug. 2010 to Apr. 2019, the #US #EspionageAct case against #JA was like an aircraft hiding in the shadow of another aicraft (#SwedishCase) in order NOT to be detected by the radar of the public opinion
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1. Tr^mp's lawyers did not dispute anything disclosed in the new filing. 2. If he believed overturning the election was part of his official acts, why was he using a burner phone routed outside of the U.S., unencrypted? 3. How many countries may be planning to blackmail him as a result of this #security #breach, or others?
#AdamCochran #Smith #filing #burner #phone #SpamRiskEgypt #EspionageAct #indict #espionage #risk #blackmail #foreign #intelligence #unencrypted #official #act #SCOTUS #king -
This is the sort of scenario that #ColdWar spy thrillers used to explore back in the day. What #WeirdDonOLD did when he spoke with #Putin is actively compromise #US #NationalSecurity. This applies even if they just exchanged pleasantries and talked about each other’s hobbies, without #Trump violating the #LoganAct.
If any one else did what Trump did here, there would be talk of charges under the #EspionageAct.
Will be get away with this, too?
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The resolution also calls for the
* The U.S. to urgently reform the 1917 Espionage Act
* The U.S. to conduct thorough, impartial, and transparent investigations into alleged war crimes and human rights violations disclosed by WikiLeaks and Mr Assange.
* The U.K. to conduct an independent review of the treatment of Julian Assange -
From the Nation;
Assange’s Case Shows Why Reforming the Espionage Act Is Imperative for Press Freedom
Representative Rashida Tlaib has proposed an amendment to do so.CHIP GIBBONS
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quali sono i 2 gravi errori commessi dal #TGLa7 di #Mentana?
1) ha affermato che è caduta l'accusa più grave di #spionaggio. Possibile che al #TGLa7 non abbiano capito che il capo di imputazione patteggiato è proprio uno dei 17 capi di imputazione ai sensi dell'#EspionageAct?
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#JulianAssange was released from Belmarsh Prison after nearly 15 years but pled guilty to conspiracy to violate the #EspionageAct in a #Saipan courthouse. Despite his release, the case sets a troubling precedent for #journalism, highlighting the US government's stance that exposing powerful entities' wrongdoings can be criminalized, thereby chilling future journalistic endeavors.
https://jacobin.com/2024/06/julian-assange-journalism-wikileaks-freedom
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#AileenCannon did not indicate when she would issue a formal ruling on #Trump’s bid to toss out the #evidence.
The #FBI agents who searched #MarALago in Aug 2022 found HUNDREDS of #ClassifiedDocuments strewn throughout Trump’s living area. Trump is charged w/ illegally hoarding #NationalSecrets after he left office & #obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them. [not that she cares about #NationalSecurity]
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Cuz she doesn’t want to be removed:
Judge #AileenCannon is skeptical that #evidence from #MarALago should be thrown out – she was not receptive to the defense’s complaints about the 2022 search of #Trump’s home.
Her skepticism toward defense was unusual, as a Trump appointee who has issued many favorable rulings toward Trump & has often clashed w/special counsel #JackSmith’s team…
#criminal #law #ClassifiedDocuments #obstruction #EspionageAct
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/25/aileen-cannon-trump-evidence-classified-documents-00164944 -
La liberazione di #JulianAssange è una vittoria per lui e per i suoi numerosi sostenitori in tutto il mondo ma "l’#EspionageAct continuerà a incombere sulle teste dei giornalisti che si occupano di questioni di sicurezza nazionale, non solo negli #USA."
#FreeAssangeNOW #HumanRights #JournalismIsNotCrimes #25giugno
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My latest on the Assange case: For Assange, the Process Was the Punishment
https://www.cato.org/blog/assange-process-was-punishment
#Assange #EspionageAct #surveillance #warcrimes #whistleblower
