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. If I'm not mistaken, Gravel has spoken out in favor of Snowden. Douglas On 01/19/2014 06:06 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:26 AM, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
now describe to me what happens when the session is over, their attendance complete, they return home, and then still find themselves having leaked classified information without authorization.
""" US Constitution - Art 1, Sec 6: The Senators and Representatives ... for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place. """
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...