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The Espionage Act of 1917 was passed, along with the Trading with the Enemy Act, just after the United States entered World War I in April 1917.It was based on the Defense Secrets Act of 1911, especially the notions of obtaining or delivering information relating to "national defense" to a person who was not "entitled to have it".
Convicted of six counts of the espionage act for providing classified information to Wikileaks: July 30, 2013 35-year sentence, commuted (released May 17, 2017) Dongfan "Greg" Chung Chinese Convicted of economic espionage; stole trade secrets related to the US Space Shuttle program and the Delta IV rocket and provided them to China [2] July 16 ...
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The Espionage Act of 1941 or Commonwealth Act No. 616 is a Philippine law which criminalizes acts of espionage against the Philippines. Adopted in 1941 by the National Assembly of the Philippines, during the Commonwealth era when the islands were still an American territory, it also covers acts committed against the United States. [1] [2]
Espionage against a nation is a crime under the legal code of many nations. In the United States, it is covered by the Espionage Act of 1917. The risks of espionage vary. A spy violating the host country's laws may be deported, imprisoned, or even executed.
Prosecutors quickly dropped the Espionage Act and perjury charges, [5] assessing the risk from requiring classified documents as evidence as greater than the need to convict Nickerson under the higher charges. [10] Instead they settled for a plea deal from Nickerson on the 15 lesser charges, one which he had signed three days prior to the trial ...
On July 27, 2021, citing the need to deter others from disclosing government secrets, U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady sentenced Hale to 45 months in prison for violating the Espionage Act of 1917. "You are not being prosecuted for speaking out about the drone program killing innocent people", O'Grady told Hale.
: This is part of the Espionage Act. The law forbids 'unauthorized persons' from taking 'national defense' information and either 'retaining' it or delivering it to 'persons not entitled to receive it'. [4] [5; 1 and 2: These are from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.