On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:22:04AM -0400, Johnson, Tracy wrote:
> * Espionage, is easier to convict, the requirements are less stringent
> than treason.  Pretty close though, they got the confession in lieu of
> two witnessess to an overt act, but the information was passed to the
> media and not the enemy, (the media is not the enemy despite what we may
> think,) so it fails that test.

The information was passed *directly* to the media, where our enemies could
and almost certainly did see it. Willful and reckless disregard for the
security of the information is equivalent to giving it to the enemy.
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