"I think espionage is for ever".
A relic of World War I, the Espionage Act was written before a series of Supreme Court rulings expanded the First Amendment's protection of speech and press freedoms.
And he was probably married, with children, as evidenced by a line in the letter, stating: "If I commit espionage, I will be putting myself and family at great risk".
Rennison wants to tie Holmes to Jack the Ripper, the Crippen murder case, World War I and espionage work taken, as Rennison imagines it, at the behest of Holmes's brother, Mycroft, a muckety-muck in the highest shadowy echelons of the British government.
"Which country was I conducting espionage for?" he said in court after the verdict was announced, Reuters news agency reports.
Cosby paved the way for African-American entertainers by becoming the first black co-star in a dramatic television series on the "I Spy" espionage series, and later broke down barriers with his widely successful sitcom "The Cosby Show".
Isn't espionage just a closed, circulatory activity for debonair thugs intellectuals with a sense of danger and an inordinate capacity for deception?
Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman were eventually charged under the World War I-era Espionage Act for sharing with journalists, colleagues and Israeli diplomats information they had received from Bush administration policymakers.
The two, Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, were charged under the World War I-era Espionage Act, accused of improperly providing to their colleagues, journalists and Israeli diplomats sensitive information they had acquired by speaking with American policy makers.
