re: What is "value?"

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" Let's be honest: that's clearly too broad to pass the smell test here. It is more reasonable that "value" here means "monetary value."

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Yes, the way they are trying to apply it to Jr appears to be incorrect and would cause major issues for lots of people. The Post has a pretty good article on it.

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But in any event, the statute as written is much broader than the facts of this case, and no limiting construction can limit it just to foreign governments, or just to very high level and sensitive information. If Rick’s theory of the statute is right, then political candidates would find it much harder to investigate what their opponents did in foreign countries, or did to foreigners here in the U.S. And that suggests to me that this theory can’t be right.

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