The totalitarian mindset - Obama and the 1917 Espionage Act

During World War One, Woodrow Wilson abused his power worse than any dictator. He had the progressive's dictatorial mindset that has returned to abuse the limited power allowed the presidency once again. 
Why is the 1917 Espionage Act still in effect? m/r

Obama and the 1917 Espionage Act | National Review Online
The president uses the overly broad and little-used WWI-era law to go after reporters. 

By Michael Barone - 5-27-13

The problem is that what the AP reporters and Rosen did arguably violates the letter of the law.  ...

Wilson wanted even more. “Authority to exercise censorship over the press,” he wrote a senator, “is absolutely necessary.” He got that authority in May 1918 when Congress passed the Sedition Act, criminalizing, among other things, “abusive language” about the government.

Wilson’s Justice Department successfully prosecuted Eugene Debs, the Socialist candidate who received 900,000 votes for president in 1912, for making statements opposing the war. The Wilson administration barred Socialist newspapers from the mails, jailed a filmmaker for making a movie about the Revolutionary War (don’t rile our British allies), and prosecuted a minister who claimed Jesus was a pacifist. German-language books were removed from libraries, German-language newspapers were forced out of business, and one state banned speaking German outdoors.

It was an ugly period in our history. It’s also a reminder that big-government liberals can be as much inclined to suppress civil liberties as small-government conservatives can — or more so. ...

Barack Obama and his Justice Department seem to be of a different mind [more like Wilson's abuses]. They have used the Espionage Act of 1917 six times to bring cases against government officials for leaks to the media — twice as many as all their predecessors combined.

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