Join the Libraries for a talk with Sam Lebovic on his recent book, State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime.

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The Espionage Act is one of the most controversial laws in U.S. history, having been used not only to punish spies, but also to prosecute dissidents during World War 1 and leakers of classified information today (plus a certain ex-president).  Tracing the surprising evolution of this confusing law over more than a century, this talk will reveal a fundamental shift in the way that the national security state has sought to police debate in American democracy: where once the state used the Espionage Act to censor speech, today it uses the same law to keep secrets. The resulting secrecy regime – improvised, sprawling, flawed –  poses real threats to American democracy, and is in dire need of reform.

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