Shef–what spying? An official tells a lobbyist something and the lobbyist tells others. That’s the case. Gossip. Let me put this in the simplest of terms for you—-As the court has noted the govt has to prove that (a) the information was classified(b) the listeners knew this and knew the disclosure was not authorized and (c) told others in order to hurt national interest. None of this appears to be true so it seems the continued expenditure of funds and effort by DoJ is futile and worse–it’s clearly leading to a very restrictive reading of an already creaky and antiquated law with limited application.
You seem to assume there’s a super secrets act in the US but there isn’t–there’s only the Espionage Act and it’s rather evidence that the defendants didn’t violate it.
