The Espionage Act is a World War I-era law covering the handling of sensitive information. By Julian E. Barnes WASHINGTON — The Espionage Act, a World War I-era law once used to stamp out ...

What is the Espionage Act? The Espionage Act of 1917, enacted just after the beginning of World War I, makes it illegal to obtain information, capture photographs or copy descriptions of any ...

The Espionage Act was first passed in 1917 during World War I as a way to stifle dissent against the war and spying efforts, which prohibited disclosing national defense information that could ...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling for the Espionage Act to be repealed amid a federal investigation into the possible mishandling of government records and classified documents that were found at ...

The Espionage Act is in the news with the June indictment and arrest of former President Donald Trump for his handling of classified material after ...

The Espionage Act was first enacted by Congress in 1917 during World War I and makes it illegal to obtain information (including photographs or documents) related to national defense, with the ...

The majority of former President Donald Trump’s charges for mishandling classified documents stem from the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law that has often been used to silence dissent and go ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Beverly Gage and Thomas Goldstein discuss the Espionage Act and its impact on WWI. Beverly Gage and Thomas Goldstein discuss the Espionage Act ...

And they would have used the Espionage Act to do it. It’s time to acknowledge the horror of U.S. intervention in World War I and the horrible consequences of that intervention.

The Justice Department is investigating Trump for potential Espionage Act violations, according to a search warrant. What does it mean?

The fact is, just as members of the anti-Federalist press went to jail under the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, many members of the socialist press went to jail under the Espionage Act. But they went ...

"The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long pastime to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment," he wrote on Twitter.