We Need To Talk About the Espionage Act
The Lawfare Podcast
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Edward Snowden's Affirmative Defense
An Edward Snowden case would look like the government proves that he purloined this material gave it to Bart Gellman and Glenn Greenwald and company. He responds with the kind of affirmative defense I did it because I believed that it was in the public interest for the public to know this information. The standard has to be an objective one particularly when you're talking about potential national security implications.
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