On May 23rd, Americans will have a better idea whether policy analysts, lobbyists, journalists, members of the press, newspapers or any private American citizen who leaks classified national defense information will now become a criminal. On that date, a U.S. District Court Judge will rule whether two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman violated a rarely used and vaguely worded "spy" provision of the World War I era Espionage Act that makes it a crime to disclose or disseminate any “national defense information” that could be used "to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation." Simply put, it is a legal attempt to use a spy statue to silence anyone from disclosing "national defense information" leaks. FULL STORY
