Fitzgerald and the Espionage Act? (Talking Points Memo)

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Fitzgerald and the Espionage Act?
By OldenGoldenDecoy

Ever since Judith Miller's release from jail I couldn't help but think that there's more to all the goings on with Miller and Libby and Rove than just some indictment on conspiracy or obstruction charges that the pundits have bandied about over the past three months since the Cooper testimony.

And then Josh dropped this little morsel yesterday:


One can't really blame Fitzgerald. It's the prosecutors job after all to squeeze these guys and get all the information he can using the looming threat of indictment to secure as much assistance as possible.

So Fitzgerald you can understand. And Libby too. After all, by all accounts he's looking at a felony indictment coming down the pike. So you try to be as helpful as you can to the guy who has your fate in his hands.

But what about Miller? Her claim that she didn't crack now seems, well ... like a crock. This 'voluntary' doesn't seem any different from the first 'voluntary'. And 'voluntary' has, of course, a withered meaning when it's the prosecutor calling for volunteers.

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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/10/9/232322/299

[dbeach]

1. there is also a USC 794

regarding TREASON

The most beautiful sound in the world is the sound of the word TREASON and any bush officials in the same sentence ,particularly if one of those lil ole names is bush himself...see if poppy o can buy jr
it really is the most beautiful sound...

MERRY FITZMAS!

[dbeach]

2. 794 could include the max

LIFE in PRISON or the DEATH PENALTY

§ 794. Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government

"(a) Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, except that the sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury or, if there is no jury, the court, further finds that the offense resulted in the identification by a foreign power (as defined in section 101(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) of an individual acting as an agent of the United States and consequently in the death of that individual, or directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack; war plans; communications intelligence or cryptographic information; or any other major weapons system or major element of defense strategy."
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000794----000-.html
"(b) Whoever, in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated to the enemy, collects, records, publishes, or communicates, or attempts to elicit any information with respect to the movement, numbers, description, condition, or disposition of any of the Armed Forces, ships, aircraft, or war materials of the United States, or with respect to the plans or conduct, or supposed plans or conduct of any naval or military operations, or with respect to any works or measures undertaken for or connected with, or intended for the fortification or defense of any place, or any other information relating to the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life."

[ShockediSay]

3. AIPAC and the guy who gave them documents?

Seems like they ended up communicating this kind of information to a foreign government. No?