Journalists

Experts Say Espionage Act Could Soon Be Turned Against Journalists

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a briefing on leaks of classified material one week after President Donald Trump complained that Sessions was weak on preventing such disclosures, Aug. 4, 2017.(AP/Andrew Harnik)
WASHINGTON – In the nearly 100 years since enactment of the 1918 Espionage Act, the government has chosen – out of respect for press freedom – not to prosecute journalists.

Here’s why it may be possible to prosecute journalists who solicited Russiagate leaks

Whilst there has never been any doubt that the leakers within the US bureaucracy who have been leaking stories about Donald Trump and his administration are breaking the law, like most people I have assumed that the newspapers, media organisations and journalists who have been publishing the leaks are not doing so.

Capitol Hill Police Demand Journalists Delete Protest Photos

A minister belonging to a group protesting the Trump administration’s budget proposals and health care bill, is arrested during in the Russell Senate Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 18, 2017. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responded to reports on Tuesday evening from journalists on Capitol Hill, who alleged that Capitol Police were blocking reporters’ access as they tried to cover healthcare protests.