NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information." #SignalGate
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-ratcliffe-gabbard-election-ukraine-live-updates-rcna197446
Laffy /
npub16e…2n8vf
2025-03-26 16:13:13
Author Public Key
npub16el83dchxxar575yslusytcvgadnmwcm5j48ezkftdl72umsqtlq72n8vfPublished at
2025-03-26 16:13:13Event JSON
{
"id": "f7a7eb443d95a1cf3b5cd635eb2160275a2ef09de7c6e20d77a862e59e06bdfb",
"pubkey": "d67e78b71731ba3a7a8487f9022f0c475b3dbb1ba4aa7c8ac95b7fe5737002fe",
"created_at": 1743005593,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"signalgate"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114229614601185347",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff/statuses/114229614601185347",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff/statuses/114229614601185347",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets \"through gross negligence.\"\n \nThe law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to \"national defense information.\" #SignalGate\n https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-ratcliffe-gabbard-election-ukraine-live-updates-rcna197446",
"sig": "9b04bf391521c598a74f5412a9354ce646457b39022dcd5860fabcad0002059b683622d87796f650cf45050479669a831a7bfe01dbf960ed8614358862054672"
}