#OBAMA ESPIONAGE ACT JOURNALISTS TRIAL#
Bradley Manning:įormer Army intelligence analyst Manning is currently on trial for the largest leak of government documents in U.S. The charges filed against him under the Espionage Act were dropped as part of the deal. In 2012, as part of a plea deal, Kiriakou plead guilty to leaking the identity of one of the CIA operatives and is currently serving a two and a half year jail term. Kiriakou was accused of giving "the names of two former colleagues who interrogated detainees using harsh practices including waterboarding" to journalists.
John Kiriakou:įormer CIA official Kiriakou faced up to 30 years in prison after he was charged by the government with leaking classified information to journalists. In an interview with the New York Times, Silverstein said that Leibowitz released the material "because of concerns about Israel's aggressive efforts to influence Congress and public opinion, and fears that Israel might strike nuclear facilities in Iran." 5. Leibowitz leaked around 200 pages of documents containing transcribed conversations recorded by FBI wiretaps of the Israeli embassy in Washington to blogger Richard Silverstein. Leibowitz, a former FBI Hebrew translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to leaking classified information to a reporter. forces in the region, were allegedly sent to "the Hoover Institute, the conservative think-tank located on the campus of Stanford University." Hitselberger remains in jail as his trial continues. intelligence in Bahrain, the civil unrest in the country, and the location of U.S. Hitselberger, a Navy contract linguist, was charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized retention of national defense information for allegedly taking classified documents off the military base he was working at as a translator in Bahrain. Kim has pleaded not guilty, but although he was indicted back in 2010, his case is still pending. Security Council resolution this week - condemning its recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests - with another nuclear test." officials, North Korea intended "to respond to the passage of a U.N. The charges relate to a report published by Rosen in 2009 revealing that according to U.S. Kim worked for the State Department as an adviser on nuclear proliferation and is accused of violating the Espionage Act by giving classified information about North Korea to Fox News reporter James Rosen. Thomas Drake:Ī former senior executive at the National Security Agency (NSA), Drake was charged with violating the Espionage Act through unauthorized "willful retention" of classified documents for the purpose of "unauthorized disclosure." Concerned about the inefficiency of NSA's "Trailblazer" program and its violation of American's civil liberties compared with a rival program called "ThinThread," Drake was one of the sources for a damming Baltimore Sun article about "Trailblazer."Īt one point Drake faced up to 35 years in prison, but the government case against him collapsed in 2011 with Drake pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for exceeding authorized use of a computer. government has largely refrained from using it." That is, until Obama came along. formally entered World War I during an era of trench warfare and the Ottoman Empire, the Espionage Act is hopelessly out of date, and, as Glenn Greenwald writes, the act is "so broad that even the U.S.
Bush, had been charged with doing so.Įnacted two months after the U.S. Prior to Obama taking office, only three people in total, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg under Richard Nixon, Navy civilian analyst Samuel Loring Morison under Ronald Reagan, and Defense Department analyst Lawrence A.
government having filed charges against Edward Snowden, accusing him of theft of government property and violating the Espionage Act, the NSA whistle-blower now joins a growing list of people who have been charged with leaking or mishandling classified information under the 1917 act during the Obama administration.
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