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public.
And in this case, they tried the Espionage Act, which was meant for spies who give information
secretly to another country, especially in a time of war, had been used very much for that. And
to use that on someone who gave information to the American public, me, for the first time.
Since then, ten years went by before there was another prosecution, mine was dismissed for
reasons of governmental misconduct against me during the trial. Criminal conduct, which led
actually to the resignation of Nixon in the end and to the prosecution, the conviction of a number
of his subordinates who had been involved in that. And another 10 years before there was
another case, and then about 10 years after that, a third, only three before President Obama,
one went to the Supreme Court and they refused jurisdiction. So the Supreme Court has never,
to this day, addressed the question of whether it can be constitutional to prosecute someone for
telling the truth to the American public. They haven't ever addressed that, there was a very
strong constitutional case against them, whether the majority on this court would notice that or
not. Nevertheless, it hasn't been tested.
President Obama brought nine such cases, three times more than the three that have been tried
before. But even he did not apply it to someone unlike me, who was an official who had had a
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