Geoff Litchfield

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NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."   The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified

The Espionage Act, the law that often has been used in criminal cases involving leaks or mishandling of classified information, contains a provision making it

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