Espionage Act of 1917

Woodrow Wilson came into office of the presidency on March 4th, 1913 with an ambitious plan for America and its relationship with the rest of the world. Wilson’s plan consisted of taking the nation and building up its economy until it was the largest in the world. Along the way, Wilson made claims such as how he planned to keep the world safe through the institution of democratic ideals, but his actions were almost always motivated by economic opportunity. The notion of “Liberal Internationalism…

J. Edgar Hoover was an intelligent man that used manipulation to his advantage and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to what it is today. Hoover worked for eight United States presidents and served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years. Prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation being under the jurisdiction of J. Edgar Hoover it was named the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Several members of the Secret Service were hired to become the first agents of the…

Sinclair and Seymour Hersh. Regardless of the name muckraker, devised by President Theodore Roosevelt, the many successes of investigative reporters are also mentioned. Discussed next are the government restrictions such as prior restraint, the Espionage Act of 1917, judicial proceedings, privacy and defamation laws…

possible. However the United States was also at war with itself. Since the First Red Scare resulting in the 1920 Palmer Raids the US had been searching out the communist threat at home. The creation of the Smith Act, Alien Registration Act, The Internal Security Act, and The Communist Control Act were all that need to be mention to sum up McCarthyism. The United States Government used a communist threat to take control of the people. The materialistic middle-class became hysteric knowing someone…

motivation for bringing forth the truth can be so easily deterred, then their reasons for doing so in the first place must not hold much ground. This is why punishing Snowden will send a message with positive consequences. It will encourage people to not act recklessly in the name of whistleblowing, therefore not creating a frenzy of people leaking documents and causing chaos is the way that Snowden…

would not have left such a tangible impact. Because while legal suffrage organizations did exist at the time, their activities were paired with several acts of civil disobedience such as those of Anthony and the National Woman’s Party (NWP) in order to gain publicity for their cause. Ultimately, the public attention that burgeoned from these acts of resistance was pivotal in granting the franchise to…

Snowden: The Hero The World Needs Whistle blowing is a very controversial and delicate topic in the world today. It defines whether a person is a hero or a traitor. The Snowden NSA leakage is the perfect example of controversy. Edward Snowden, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee as well as a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, blew the whistle in 2013. He was the face behind the world’s the biggest whistleblowing case in U.S. history. He exposed how the U.S. government’s…

nineteen-seventy three. What was shocking to know was that once a full investigation was done, It was later found in later investigative reports was that Watergate was actually not a one time event rather it was a culmination of events ranging from illegal acts of espionage to futile attempts at covering the crimes up building up to Nixon 's ultimate…

J. Edgar Hoover called her one of “two of the most dangerous anarchists in this country,” yet Emma Goldman now is more fondly remembered than feared. A pioneer of anarcha-feminism, Goldman helped pave the way for women’s liberation and free-love ideology. She preached of the benefits from and need for communism in its purest form, and for the abolishment of classes. Her speeches fueled the anarchic fire that burned throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Lithuania in 1869…

hopes of peace between the countries fighting in WWI. His values and hopefulness is the main reason the U.S. remained neutral for two and a half years after the war began in 1915. It was not until the discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram in March of 1917 that pushed the U.S. into the war. The Zimmerman Telegram revealed Germany’s proposal of an alliance with Mexico, against the U.S., with the promise of helping to obtain Mexico’s previously lost land by the U.S. in the Mexican War between 1846…