Failure to relaunch
The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias
04/10/07
Ever heard of the Logan Act? If not, you’re lucky — a normal, decent person who hasn’t been exposed to oodles of right-wing propaganda. For the record, however, it was passed during the John Adams administration, during the era of the Alien and Sedition Acts, and subjects to criminal sanctions any citizen ‘who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States’...
http://tinyurl.com/265oql
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Yglesias
by Matthew Yglesias
04/10/07
Ever heard of the Logan Act? If not, you’re lucky — a normal, decent person who hasn’t been exposed to oodles of right-wing propaganda. For the record, however, it was passed during the John Adams administration, during the era of the Alien and Sedition Acts, and subjects to criminal sanctions any citizen ‘who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States’...
http://tinyurl.com/265oql
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthew+Yglesias
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