WAPO is in trouble.
Not only the recorder/leaker(if they are same person) illegally released protected Executive communications with THE Executive aka POTUS but
-Author of the story
-Editor(s)
-Publisher
All *knowingly* committed/ aided espionage. https://twitter.com/wakehill/status/1345916906100973570
Wiretap Act, part of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. (18 U.S.C. § 2510.)
“it is illegal for any person to secretly record an oral, telephonic, or electronic communication that other parties to the communication reasonably expect to be private.”
18 U.S. Code § 2511 -Interception & disclosure of wire,oral, or electronic communications prohibited or endeavors to disclose,to any other person contents of wire,oral, or electronic comm,intercepted by means authorized by sections 2511(2)(a)(ii), 2511(2)(b)–(c), 2511(2)(e), 2516
18 U.S.C. § 798 - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 798. Disclosure of classified information
a)Whoever knowingly &willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits,or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person,publishes,uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of U.S. or for the benefit of any foreign gov to the detriment of U.S. any classified info
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