[PDF] Leaks, National Security, and the First Amendment: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years on By Geoffrey Stone
Leaks, National Security, and the First Amendment: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years on
By : Geoffrey Stone
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Written by a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars, a deeply informed, thoughtful, and often surprising examination of who has First Amendment rights to disclose, to obtain, or to publish classified information relating to the national security of the United States.One of the most vexing and perennial questions facing any democracy is how to balance the government's legitimate need to conduct its operations-especially those related to protecting the national security-in secret, with the public's right and responsibility to know what its government is doing.There is no easy answer to this issue, and different nations embrace different solutions. In the United States, at the constitutional level, the answer begins exactly half a century ago with the Supreme Court's landmark 1971 decision in the Pentagon Papers case. The final decision, though, left manyimportant questions unresolved. Moreover, the issue of leaks and secrecy has cropped up repeatedly since, most recently
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Author : Geoffrey Stone
Pages : 368 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN-10 : 0197519393
ISBN-13 : 9780197519394
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