Saturday, August 12, 2006

CHALLENGE BY ACCUSED FORMER PRO ISRAEL LOBBYISTS REJECTED

CHANTILLY, Va. — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a constitutional challenge filed by two former lobbyists with a pro-Israel group who are charged under a World War I-era espionage law with receiving and disclosing national defense information.

Lawyers for the two former lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee argued that the 1917 Espionage Act is unconstitutionally broad and vague, as it seeks to bar receipt or disclosure of “information related to the national defense” to “persons not entitled to receive it.”


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