Complex sentence: In the United States, a nation without a British-style Official Secrets Act, the disclosure of classified information is not, in general, illegal, and Congress has repeatedly resisted or failed to pass a law that generally outlaws disclosing classified information.
Split into simpler sentences: In the United States, a nation without a British-style Official Secrets Act, the disclosure of classified information is not, in general, illegal. Burn Before Reading, Stansfield Turner, 2006 The Deadly Bet, Walter LaFaber Seeds of Terror, Gretchen Peters Congress has repeatedly resisted or failed to pass a law that generally outlaws disclosing classified information.