Espionage Act
concept
7 mentions
6 recordings
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 10 Sep
±0 vs the 6 months before
1917–1918 federal law criminalizing interference with military operations and dissent during World War I.
Trend
Peak in the week of 21 Aug — 2 mentions across 2 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentChris HedgesThe Chris Hedges Report · The Dissidents (w/ Cartoonist Derf Backderf) | TCHR · 1:20 · 10 Sep
…Congress passes the Espionage Act in 1917, which not only criminalizes espionage, but speech deemed critical of the government.…
Lindsay GrahamAmerican Scandal · The Rosenbergs | The Martyrs | 4 · 26:32 · 25 Aug
…Brownell explains that the Rosenbergs were tried under the Espionage Act, and under that law, the judge could sentence them to either 30 years in prison or death.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · 100 Dark U.S. History Facts They Never Taught You in School ... · 3:15:36 · 23 Aug
…The tools available to the United States government include the Espionage Act of nineteen seventeen, which was written to prosecute spies passing secrets to foreign enemies and which has been used with increasing frequency since two thousand nine to prosecute people who gave information to journalists and the American public.…
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