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So if I want US military secrets, all I have to do is hire someone to infiltrate, dig them up and then transmit them in the clear for me and my friends to read
by pekk 13y ago
So if I want US military secrets, all I have to do is hire someone to infiltrate, dig them up and then transmit them in the clear for me and my friends to read - and then it is not espionage, because it's "only a revelation"?
- crimsonzagar 13y agoHmm right, that's certainly a catch! But if you consider the situation: why would an enemy acquiring such information would want to come in public domain and shroud it as "a revelation"? It's a useless escape route if the acquiring party is true enemy. No one would want to lose the advantage of having secretive information by blowing it in the open, right? Secondly, from what I see from comments above the law makers are using Espionage Act of 1917 to frame/indict all whistleblowers. 1917. Framework of 1917 being applied in the year 2013 :-) That seems bit of a joke in itself.