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“If I am not being charged with defaming Stalin for calling him a fool

if not most “state” secrets are designed not to protect the security of the nation

Woodward relies on high ranking members of the administration who want their “spin” on the story he is publishing to a very wide audience. Some of those politicians may be authorized to disclose the material

two names immediately popped into my head: Seymour Hirsh of the New Yorker

vet it for names and other life-threatening information which in his journalistic judgment should not be published (for example

in every relevant sense of that term. He published

deeply devoted to the principle of maximal transparency of governmental actions. He was

which some might think ironic in light of Assange’s penchant for disclosure of secret communications

but he also faced the possibility of being extradited to the United States to face charges that carried far more serious consequences than those in Sweden. It was the possible American prosecution that he wished to discuss with me.

because Julian Assange has asked me to consult with him and his British legal team regarding a possible indictment by the United States against him and others.

Congress (the very Congress that was directed to “make no law abridging the freedom of speech) “made” the Alien and Sedition law

especially in the context of fear of war.

the Pentagon Papers case was First Amendment “child play” compared with the Wikileaks case and other current threats to national security posed by modern computer technology. The Pentagon Papers

as it did in most of the anti-war cases of the 1970s. But this was before the age of the internet. Everything would soon be different as technology changed the sounds and sights of expression—as well as the stakes involved in the debate ove...

I have never seen it even suggested that there was such an actual threat. [He

Griswold expressed a rather different view:

who was lead counsel for the Times in the Pentagon Papers case. Our cases shared a common constitutional approach and so we exchanged ideas and drafts.

the CIA was given a major role in overseeing the American evacuation. One of the highest ranking CIA agents in charge of the operation was Frank Snepp. Snepp wrote an uncensored account of his experiences—taking care

there was an anti-war protest at Harvard that led to violence and several years of continuous turmoil on that venerable campus. These events led the university to attempt to suspend or dismiss numerous students. I represented several of the...