The Briefing Room
General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: ABX on May 23, 2013, 01:18:55 am
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The Justice Department did more than seize a Fox News reporter's emails while suggesting he was a criminal "co-conspirator" in a leak case -- it did so under one of the most serious wartime laws in America, the Espionage Act.
It's the same law used by the Nixon administration to go after The New York Times and Daniel Ellsberg over the leak of the Pentagon Papers. It's the law used to charge the Rosenbergs, American communists, for allegedly passing secret information to the Soviet Union -- they were executed for the offense in 1953.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/22/doj-invoked-espionage-act-in-calling-fox-news-reporter-criminal-co-conspirator/#ixzz2U4foJ7Y9
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A journalist reports something that is not in line with Obama’s narrative, that reporter can be charged under espionage laws?
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Rosen will never be charged. This was a shot across FOXNEWS' bow.
It backfired. Holder will likely be forced to resign because of it. HE had to approve the use of the Espionage Act against Rosen.