A careful reading of the Espionage Act makes clear that anyone who obtains and retains classified information -- regardless of whether or not they communicate or publish it -- is committing a crime.

仔细阅读反间谍法的话，我们能够清楚地知道如果有人获得和持有机密信息--不管他们是否传播或者公开了信息--那就是犯罪。

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Prosecutors later said they expected the indictment to contain allegations of violating the Espionage Act, each of which was enough to give Mr Martin 10 years in prison.

检察官之后表示，他们期望起诉书包含违反《反间谍法》的指控，每项指控足以让马丁面临长达10年的监狱生涯。

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The ten were only charged with plotting to act as undeclared foreign agents. They were not charged with the more serious crime of espionage, so the extent of their success as spies is not clear.

这10人被控阴谋担任俄罗斯秘密特工，他们没有被控更加严重的间谍罪名，所以他们作为间谍的成功程度尚不清楚。

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The center would investigate infringement of the Economic Espionage Act designed to protect trade secrets, as well as traditional copyright and trademark violations.

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But it is darkly humorous to see people who react to one instance of leaking classified information with outraged screeds about the need to apply the espionage act react to another instance of leaking classified information by proceeding to use that same information to argue on behalf of their preferred policy.

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