(n.) The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.
Example Sentences:
(1) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(2) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
(3) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(4) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
(5) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(6) The case’s documents are devoid of any type of espionage or participation in it,” a defence lawyer told Reuters.
(7) And the fact that the disclosures have led to the highest journalism rewards, have led to historic reforms in the US and around the world – all of that would be irrelevant in a prosecution under the espionage laws in the United States.” Snowden also could face an untold number of additional charges if he returned to the United States.
(8) His novel Fatal Weakness deals with espionage between China and the US and has been published on the internet in China.
(9) David Kairys, a civil rights attorney who has advised the group, said that the Espionage Act – used aggressively under the Bush and Obama administrations to pursue leakers such as Chelsea Manning and Snowden – would not have applied as there was no espionage involved in the Media case.
(10) The Obama administration has launched seven prosecutions under the Espionage Act , which Manning is also facing, more than double the number initiated by all previous presidents combined.
(11) "We wanted a backdrop of global espionage, and then the goal was to ignore it as much as possible to focus on people bickering," Reed explains.
(12) Many foreign nations have also now realized that the scope of US spying exceeds any reasonable standard of behavior, so much so that if there are any bombshells remaining in the documents taken by Snowden, they would most likely relate to the specific targets of overseas espionage.
(13) In such cases, ministerial authorisation is required (section 8) and before giving it, the minister must be satisfied that the Australian is “a person of interest” – ie involved in terrorism or espionage or serious crime.
(14) In a press conference yesterday Ponomarev insisted that the European military observers working under the auspices of Germany's foreign ministry were engaged in espionage.
(15) An Egyptian prosecutor on Sunday accused the ousted Islamist president of passing state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the first such explicit detail in an ongoing espionage trial.
(16) In its final version, MI5 claimed: "Intelligence indicates that MIRANDA is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of UK national security ... We assess that MIRANDA is knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people's lives.
(17) Fifty years on, the exhibition illustrates what now appears to be primitive methods of espionage.
(18) Far from absurd and fictitious, state-led cyber espionage is perfectly logical and real.
(19) Meanwhile, Senator Lieberman has indicated that the New York Times and other news organisations using the WikiLeaks cables may be investigated for breaking US espionage laws.
(20) • The US National Security Agency was forced on Sunday to deny that its director ever discussed a surveillance operation against the German chancellor with President Barack Obama , as the White House tried to contain a full-scale diplomatic crisis over espionage directed at allied countries.
Treason
Definition:
(n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
(n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.
Example Sentences:
(1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
(2) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
(3) Instead of dealing with a political problem, China has sought confrontation and control – threatening new national security laws that outlaw treason .
(4) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(5) December 5, 2013 10.21pm GMT Mandela was arrested in 1956 for "high treason" against the state, in a case that concluded without conviction.
(6) Arrested last year on suspicion of spying for arch-enemy Armenia, the couple also face treason charges in a separate case.
(7) But a Conservative MP who recently wrote to the Metropolitan police to call for a criminal investigation into the Guardian, accused the newspaper of potential treason.
(8) In addition to tax evasion and illegal business activities, she has also been charged with treason, for allegedly spying for Armenia.
(9) In a statement to a Senate judiciary committee he accused the British actor of coming “perilously near to treason” against the United States.
(10) On Monday the Sunni Ittehad Council, an umbrella group representing followers of the moderate Barelvi school of Islam , demanded Hassan be tried for treason.
(11) Pakistan's official commission investigating Bin Laden's presence in the country last year recommended that Afridi be tried for treason.
(12) Musharraf was dramatically diverted to a military hospital on 2 January after feeling a "heaviness" in his chest while he was driving to his treason trial.
(13) Everyone who happens to threaten or is perceived to be threatening his position is accused of committing a treasonous act, even if he doesn’t prove it.
(14) But pro-European presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, known as the "chocolate king," who currently leads in the polls, said on Thursday that any delay of the elections would be "treason" and would not happen no matter the circumstances.
(15) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
(16) Most were men and most had been convicted of murder, although Thomas and Albert also executed some prisoners who had been convicted of treason.
(17) But if that has turned not out to be true – if it is less and less accepted in rightward-drifting Israeli society that there can be such a thing as non-political information, and B’Tselem’s traditional activities are dismissed as treason – what point is there in trying any more?
(18) It is believed that Dokuchayev and Mikhailov face treason charges, which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
(19) Whenever we had a special campaign or an important political case - for example, the treason trial - we received financial assistance from sympathetic individuals and organisations in the western countries.
(20) "Generals like those in charge of Ilovaysk should be imprisoned for treason," said Skillt.