Glenn Greenwald: Snowden’s revelations ‘not espionage in any real sense of the word’

‘I think it’s very surprising to accuse someone of espionage who hasn’t worked for a foreign government, who didn’t covertly pass information to an adversary [or] enemy of the United States, who didn’t sell any top secret information,’ Greenwald told Hayes, arguing that Snowden ‘asked newspapers to very carefully vet the information to make sure that the only thing being published are things that informed his fellow citizens but doesn’t harm national security.’  ‘This is a 1917 statute enacted under Woodrow Wilson to criminalize opposition to World War I.  It has been used very, very sparingly throughout American history until the Obama administration.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/21/glenn-greenwald-snowdens-revelations-not-espionage-in-any-real-sense-of-the-word/

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