Can Leaks Sink a Ship Even When It’s Not Under Attack? Criminalizing Outside Solicitation of Classified Information

By John Thorlin, NSJ Staff Editor – In Probing Secrets: The Press and Inchoate Liability for Newsgathering Crimes (in the Spring 2009 issue of the American Journal of Criminal Law) Professor William E. Lee of the University of Georgia examines the legality of soliciting or possessing classified information. The issue became a controversial one in … Continue reading Can Leaks Sink a Ship Even When It’s Not Under Attack? Criminalizing Outside Solicitation of Classified Information