(August 15, 2022 at 12:26 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Rand Paul wants to legalise it... Espionage, that is.
I know that there's a lot of problems with the Espionage Act of 1917, especially in how it's often used not for spies, but for whistleblowers looking to expose wrongdoing in the US government. That said, Trump has a history of disclosing classified information to Putin, so it looks like the government is well within its rights to use the Act against him, especially if there's any evidence that the classified information in question could have gone to Russia.
We were warned by 50 former Republican intel agents, during the former guy's first campaign, that we as Americans should not elect him because of the national security risk they knew he would pose. And it is highly likely the result we are seeing now.