On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Douglas Lucas <dal@riseup.net> wrote:
Indeed, Daniel Ellsberg planned to have Congresspeople speak about the still-classified Pentagon Papers via this part of the Constitution. Senator Mike Gravel did it. You can read about it in Sanford J. Ungar's book The Papers & the Papers: an Account of the Legal and Political Battle over the Pentagon Papers.... ...
As before, it's rather clear, speak/leak all you want in session, nothing criminal happens. The deleted part refers to non-congressional activities/crimes/places... like murder, or to congressional activities/crimes/places such as taking bribes... that are not speech/debate on the floor or activities directly related to that, like storing classified leaks in your office pursuant to leaking them.
More, just read it all yourself... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Congressmen_stripped_of_committee_ass...
thank you Douglas and grarpamp; i learned something :) coderman for congress!