Trump’s Justice Department charged and convicted her under the Espionage Act. In 2017, then-National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Reality Winner, who was 26, leaked a classified NSA document to The Intercept that described this GRU plot in detail. At the time, Trump called all of this “fake news.” In one of them, GRU sent spearphishing emails to local election officials in swing states hoping to trick them into opening the malicious attachment that would hack their computers. (Several more journalistic sources were prosecuted under lesser statutes.) Here’s how the Espionage Act charges went for the people Trump used it against.ĭuring the 2016 presidential election, Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, or GRU, launched cyberattacks in support of Trump’s campaign. Press Freedom Tracker, Trump’s Department of Justice charged five journalist sources - none of them spies - under the Espionage Act. This isn’t Trump’s first brush with the Espionage Act, though it is the first time he’s the one being accused. In recent years, both Democratic and Republican administrations wielded it as a weapon to intimidate media as well as sources who have provided important information to the public - raising the ire of civil rights advocates. Despite its name, it isn’t really used much anymore to prosecute spies. The 1917 Espionage Act has become controversial. And the last one involved Section 793 of the Espionage Act, a statute that covers “gathering, transmitting or losing defense information.”
Another related to the theft of government records. One related to obstruction - which the New York Times said could be because a lawyer working for Trump signed a written statement asserting that they had already returned all classified documents, which wasn’t true. The search warrant cited three criminal statutes. Last week, FBI agents executed a search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seizing 11 sets of classified documents, including one at the highest classification level in the U.S.
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