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      "slug": "2013-obama-doj-charges-eight-under-espionage-act",
      "title": "United States: Espionage Act prosecutions of sources for leaks to the press, 2009 to 2013",
      "occurred_on": "2013-10-10",
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      "country": "US",
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      "outcome_note": "The record documents the prosecutions as a group; the outcome of each case is not recorded here.",
      "era": "2010s",
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      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-profit organization in New York that documents cases of journalists imprisoned or killed worldwide, published on October 10, 2013, found that since 2009 the United States Department of Justice had brought felony charges against six government employees and two contractors, including Edward Snowden, accused of leaking classified information to the press. The charges were brought under the Espionage Act, a 1917 United States law against disclosing defence information, during the presidency of Barack Obama. The Project On Government Oversight, a United States non-profit that investigates the federal government, said the department under Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder \"has used it more than all prior administrations combined.\"",
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