Espionage Act: The zombie law haunting Halloween week

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, In the spirit of Halloween, we’re calling for an end to the Espionage Act — a zombie statute that keeps popping up to drag journalists and their sources into hell. More about the act and its latest victims below. Also, the Department of Homeland Security and cops are sabotaging public records requests, and a new coalition of veteran journalists is fighting back against censorship. The Espionage Act’s big, bad week The Justice Department unsealed new Espionage Act charges against former FBI Director James Comey, accusing him of leaking national defense information to the press in 2016. Comey has a strong argument that the prosecution violates the statute of limitations, but the problems with Espionage Act prosecutions go far beyond procedural technicalities. T…