Dec 30, 2016 ... Obama has laid all the groundwork Trump needs for a crackdown on reporters. ...  compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has  repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting ... that it  was going to investigate a leak, but then would merely go through the ...
Jun 28, 2017 ... President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act to target spies during  World War I. The Obama administration used it against suspected leakers, and  now ... Espionage Act. The law was intended for spies but has been used by the  ... more such cases than under all previous administrations combined.
Dec 19, 2016 ... CNN's Jake Tapper was more emphatic: “The Obama administration has used  the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists . . . more  than all previous administrations combined”—seven times.
Mar 16, 2015 ... And yet other apparent leaks have gone entirely unpunished or have ... As Abbe  Lowell, lawyer for one of the Espionage Act eight, Stephen Kim, has argued in a  ... CIA headquarters on 24 June 2011, less than two months after the raid. ... with  reporters and the use of authorized leaks on display” on trial, the ...
Jan 14, 2017 ... The Obama administration has prosecuted more people under the Espionage Act , a World War I-era law, than all previous presidents combined. ... Espionage Act  prosecutions, more than all US administrations combined. ..... The Times' Risen is  not the only journalist to come under scrutiny for his reporting.
The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined.