As it is currently written, the Espionage Act of 1917 makes it a crime to hurt the United States or benefit a foreign country by collecting or communicating information that would harm the national ...

A Law Against Espionage On June 15, 1917, lawmakers passed the Espionage Act. The law set punishments for acts of interference in foreign policy and sought to prevent espionage. It authorized ...

The most prominent is the Espionage Act of 1917, a World War I-era law that was initially used against domestic opponents of the war. It applies to the act of communicating, delivering or ...

Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada is asking Congress to pass a bill for the President to sign into a law imposing life sentence in jail “without parole and pay fine of up to P50 ...

Leaping from this premise, they contend that Congress, in enacting the PRA in 1978, implicitly superseded the 1917 Espionage Act (Section 793 of the criminal code, Title 18), at least insofar as ...

Journalists have never been successfully prosecuted As it is currently written, the Espionage Act of 1917 makes it a crime to hurt the United States or benefit a foreign country by collecting or ...