(Washington Post) Walter Pincus - U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who is overseeing the prosecution of former pro-Israel lobbyists Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman who are charged with violating the 1917 Espionage Act, has set an unusual second oral argument for Friday on the defendants' motion to dismiss the charges. Rosen and Weissman are the first nongovernment civilians to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for receiving national defense information orally. Ellis, the prosecutors, and the defense attorneys have all noted that the two lobbyists were doing what journalists, academics, and experts at think tanks do every day.
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