President Donald Trump and his team are serious about using the Espionage Act of 1917 to go after leakers and journalists.

When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way to the digital treasure troves of WikiLeaks .

President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that CNN employees may be prosecuted for reporting ...

The Espionage Act of 1917 passed two months after the United States, with 56 dissenting votes, had declared war against Germany. President Woodrow Wilson and Congress were responding, ...

Passed as an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act made it prosecutable by law to make false statements that interfered with the war effort, insult or abuse the U.S. government ...

Congress first passed the Espionage Act in 1917 at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson. In a bid to quell dissent against the United States’ support for World War I, ...

The Espionage Act applies to all national defense ... Enacted at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I in 1917, the act was largely designed to make interference with the draft illegal ...

The Espionage Act of 1917 passed two months after the United States, with 56 dissenting votes, had declared war against Germany. President Wilson and Congress were responding, as Senator Moynihan ...

When federal agents removed top-secret documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last week, they carried with them a search warrant citing possible violations of the ...

The Espionage Act of 1917 Once Again Rears Its Ugly Head Michael Barone | Aug 19, 2022 The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.