More legal focus here at #ONA19, with the covertly titled Leaks and Secrets up next on our docket. Since tracking began in 2017, @uspresstracker has documented 7 people investigated or prosecuted for leaking information to journalists. #ONA19Law
Reality Winner, an Air Force veteran and federal contractor, was arrested and charged under the Espionage Act in June 2017, accused of sending journalists top-secret NSA intelligence on Russian efforts to access states’ electronic voting systems in 2016 : pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
Former FBI agent Terry Albury was charged with two counts under the Espionage Act for leaking classified documents to a news organization. Albury was sentenced in October 2018 to four years in prison and three years of supervised release: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
James Wolfe, Senate Intelligence Committee security director, was charged with lying to federal investigators after being interviewed for allegedly leaking “sensitive and confidential” information to the press : pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
Joshua Schulte, a former NSA and CIA staffer, was indicted on multiple Espionage Act charges in June 2018, for allegedly leaking sensitive CIA files to WikiLeaks. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, an official in the U.S. Treasury’s financial crimes division, was arrested in October 2018, and charged with giving details about suspicious banking transactions to a reporter at BuzzFeed News: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
John Fry, an IRS employee, was charged on Feb. 4 by the DOJ with “unlawful disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports” involving overseas financial transactions of President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
Most recently, former intelligence analyst Daniel Everette Hale was arrested on May 9 and charged with leaking classified information about drone warfare and other counterterrorism measures to a reporter. He could face up to 50 years in prison: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
“Prosecuting journalistic sources chills investigative reporting and poses an enormous threat to whistleblowers, press freedom rights, and the public’s right to know.”
- @trevortimm @FreedomofPress
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