Kamm is on trial for stealing state secrets with the intent of harming state security and Blau, who fled to London, returned to Israel with the stolen documents.
Mr Shayler is accused of disclosing state secrets in 1997 in a series of newspaper articles about alleged illegal activities and incompetence in the security services.
Ellsberg notes that there have been five prosecutions on release of state secrets during the Obama Administration.
Late Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder said he had assigned two U.S. attorneys to lead investigations into the possible leaking of state secrets.
There was a case of an FBI translator named Sibel Edmunds who appealed her dismissal and her case was thrown out on the basis of state secrets.
The Vatican prosecutor is also considering further possible, and more serious, charges against both Paolo Gabriele and Claudio Sciarpelletti - including violation of state secrets and attacking state security.
We are declassifying more information and embracing more oversight of our actions, and we're narrowing our use of the state secrets privilege.
Mr Mahmoudi's lawyers have expressed fears for his life, saying he now has sole knowledge of many of the state secrets from Gaddafi's time in power.
Radomir Markovic, the once-feared head of state security, was among three defendants sentenced on Friday to a year in jail on charges of revealing state secrets.
The Sandusky scandal landed with an icky thump in November, the long-buried secrets sliming the reputation of Penn State's football program and an idyllic spot proud to call itself Happy Valley.
They were accused of stealing state secrets.
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Originally, the prosecutor had raised other possible charges of conspiracy, crimes against the Vatican City State, defamation and revealing state secrets (all Vatican employees are required to swear an oath of secrecy regarding everything they see and learn in the course of their duties).
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And it was the same law firm that originally filed the case in Pennsylvania - brought it again, I believe, around 2000, and, again, lost on the State Secrets Privilege and on the finality of decision making.
The government wants the judge to dismiss the ACLU lawsuit and cites what's known as the state secrets privilege, and there's plenty of precedent.
The Bush administration has invoked state secrets several times recently, on two sets of issues: telephone data searches and on what's known as extraordinary rendition, the transfer of terrorism suspects to third countries.
The moustachioed Mr Peretz, who campaigned on a social-economic platform, was a natural target for cartoonists joking about his coming moment of initiation into the state's intelligence and nuclear secrets.
The Bush administration has refused to share records of the program with federal courts, invoking a "state secrets" privilege.
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And they have a high-ranking official, the head of the CIA, in many cases, or the head of the National Security Agency, sign a stipulation that says state secrets are at risk.
Ms. TASIA SCOLINOS (Spokesperson, Justice Department): And if the agency head determines that disclosure of that information would cause harm to the country, the Justice Department would review the proposed state secrets privilege claim and determine whether its assertion is appropriate in the litigation.
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