On August 11, I had a post entitled Federal District Court Judge Rejects First Amendment and Vagueness Arguments in AIPAC Lobbying Case. Today, the Washington Post offers Ruling Raises Bar in Lobbyist Case, which begins: “The federal judge who last week refused to throw out charges of conspiring to violate the 1917 Espionage Act against two former pro-Israel lobbyists simultaneously made it much more difficult for the government to prove its case against them, attorneys for the defendants and First Amendment advocates contend.” Another snippet: “In his Aug. 10 opinion, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said the law is constitutional. But for the government to prove its case, he ruled, it must show that the two men disclosed national defense information “closely held by the government” and that each ‘had bad faith purpose’ in passing it to others, knowing it ‘could be potentially damaging to the United States’ or ‘useful to an enemy of the United States.'”