Sentence examples for espionage prosecutions from inspiring English sources
The Obama administration's espionage prosecutions are political actions for political reasons, and are carried out by political appointees.
Already, the Obama administration has been forced to initiate six espionage prosecutions for leaks – twice as many as every previous administration combined.
But Mark Feldstein, professor of media at the University of Maryland, sees a worrying trend of espionage prosecutions since President Obama took office.
"Information provided by this person was instrumental in the identification and disruption of several Cuban intelligence operatives in the United States and ultimately led to a series of successful federal espionage prosecutions," the agency added.
Some Espionage Act prosecutions from press leaks are still under way.
Under the Obama administration, seven Espionage Act prosecutions have been unleashed – more than all those initiated by previous presidents combined.
"We intend to visit with Edward and suggest criminal defense attorneys who've got experience in Espionage Act prosecutions," said Mr. Fein, a well-known Washington lawyer who specializes in constitutional and international law.
"The government has never brought an Espionage Act prosecution that would look remotely like this one," he said.
In truth, the argument against an Espionage Act prosecution of Assange should not be built upon a denial that he conversed with Manning — that is, it should not be a fact-dependant argument — but rather should stand on principle.
Risen's most well-known scoop is the one that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2006: exposing the Bush-era illegal warrantless wiretapping by the NSA, under threat of Espionage Act prosecution.
"We also find reprehensible your administration's Espionage Act prosecution of Edward for disclosures indistinguishable from those which routinely find their way into the public domain via your high level appointees for partisan political advantage,'' the elder Snowden wrote, along with his attorney, Bruce Fein.
