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You don't have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken

  • Written by Joseph Ferguson, Co-Director, National Security and Civil Rights Program, Loyola University Chicago
imageFormer President Donald Trump, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Aug. 6, 2022, in Dallas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The federal court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate has brought renewed attention to the obscure but infamous law known as the Espionage Act of 1917. A section of the law was liste...

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