People seem not to understand this. Espionage Act is used to charge primarily leakers. Occasionally, it is used to charge people leaking for other countries. Agent of foreign power--what Butina was charged with--is what we call other countries' spies. It's different than FARA.
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If you're David Petraeus, & you give your mistress code word information to get laid, but you know Where The Bodies Are Buried, you get charged w/18 USC §1924, Unauthorized Removal of Classified Information. There's a lot of words I could think of to call this but I'll refrain.
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Also if you're the President or Vice President and you release a CIA officer's identity or scream details about a key ally's deeply embedded asset on Fifth Avenue, you get to tell everyone to fuck off.
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The reason most spies are charged under the sections you refer to as for leakers is that it simplifies the case for the government. That is, there’s no need to prove Wikileaks is a creature of Russian intelligence to put Manning in jail. 1/
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That's not what I said. I said most people charged under Espionage Act aren't spies. I don't consider Manning to be a spy, at all, and USG lost their bid to claim she had aided the enemy.
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Bradley Manning was a spy. Period.
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You seem to have very little understanding of her case or ... some other issues. When you exhibit such an understanding I'll treat your claims half-seriously. Thanks.
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I have enough understanding of the case to know that it was espionage. It’s really not hard to understand. And I have no tolerance for revisionist history.
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Again, I will happily come back and dunk on your trollish behavior at an appropriate time in the future. Go find someone else to embarrass yourself in front of by mansplaining.
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Mansplaining? I was led to believe you were a smart researcher and commentator, but now you’re retreating behind a whiny term? Does this mean you can’t defend your own positions?
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Do I need to tell you for a FOURTH time that I will return to this at an appropriate time? Are you having difficulties reading basic English?
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