Two national security law experts explain how the Espionage Act isn’t only about international intrigue, and share other important points about the law that was invoked in a search of Trump’s estate.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US Afghanistan pullout is not a repeat of failures in other recent wars. “This is not Saigon,” he said. A seasoned foreign policy expert disagrees.
The episode might have slipped quietly from the news had Nixon decided to not attack the messenger.
Press-bashing was a feature of the years Trump was president. But a new, more constructive kind of press criticism has also emerged that aims to improve journalism, not delegitimize it.
When a person or agency backed by the power and resources of the government tells a lie, it sometimes causes harm that only the government can inflict.
US officials have consistently lied over decades about progress in the Afghanistan war. The lies are no surprise, writes a foreign affairs scholar – but they have profound consequences.
Julian Assange’s indictment under the Espionage Act, a sweeping law with heavy penalties for unauthorized receiving or disclosing of classified information, poses a threat to press freedom.
The US indicted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange for conspiring to hack into a government computer. But the prosecution of Assange may also pose a risk to the rights of journalists in the US.
An expert argues why the anonymous op-ed in The New York Times can hardly be considered an act of civil disobedience and why it might make things even worse in the Trump administration.
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Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Oregon
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Professor Emeritus, American University School of International Service
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Marist College
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Rothgerber Chair in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Loyola University Chicago
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Co-Director, National Security and Civil Rights Program, Loyola University Chicago
