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struggle4progress

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1. This is rather sad BS: "In a conference call with ... Julian Assange, Ellsberg pointed out that

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Sat Jul 27, 2013, 08:50 PM

Jul 2013

President Obama has charged twice as many people under the Espionage Act as all previous presidents ..."

The claim is so brazenly untrue that it takes my breath away. To get an idea what Espionage Act prosecutions looked like right at the end of WWI, DUers might want to review materials like this NCLB pamphlet:

Espionage Act Cases ...
Published by the National Civil Liberties Board
(Price $1.00) July, 1918
http://debs.indstate.edu/n421e8_1918.pdf

The NCLB published several pamphlets like this, continuing after WWI ended, when Espionage Act prosecutions suddenly took off and thousands people were charged and convicted

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This is rather sad BS: "In a conference call with ... Julian Assange, Ellsberg pointed out that struggle4progress Jul 2013 #1