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GOP Senators Support Implementation of Official Secret’s Act

Posted by Billbar

Senators Rick Santorum, R-PA, and Conrad Burns, R-MT, support implementation of Official Secret’s Act, S.3774, introduced yesterday by Senator Christopher Bond, R-MO, to criminalize the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. The legislation seeks to unify current law and ease the government's burden in prosecuting and punishing leakers by eliminating the need to prove that damage to the national security has or will result from a disclosure. The United States has never had a statute generally criminalizing leaks or the publication of sensitive information.

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