Espionage Act
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| Title: | An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes | |||
| Short title: | Espionage Act | |||
| Type: | Federal law | |||
| Scope: | world | |||
| Legal matter: | Security law | |||
| Session period: | 65th Congress | |||
| Process: | 18 US Code CHAPTER 37 | |||
| Date of law: | May 14, 1917 | |||
| Signed: | President Woodrow Wilson | |||
| Entry into force on: | June 15, 1917 | |||
| Effective date of the last change: |
4th October 1961 | |||
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The Espionage Act of 1917 is a US federal law .
The law was enacted in 1917 after the United States entered World War I and has been amended several times since then. It criminalizes the disclosure of military information.
Based on this law, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg , among others, were sentenced to death and executed in 1953 .
See also
Web links
Wikisource: Espionage Act - Sources and full texts (English)
- Current legal text
- John Kiriakou : Obama's abuse of the Espionage Act is modern-day McCarthyism. In: The Guardian , August 6, 2013.