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National security, leaks, and freedom of the press : the Pentagon papers fifty years on /

National security, leaks, and freedom of the press : the Pentagon papers fifty years on / edited by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone. - 1 online resource (170 pages). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This publication draws on the expertise of an extraordinary group of national security officials, journalists and academics to explore the issue first posed half-a-century ago in the Pentagon Papers decision: To what extent does the First Amendment give government employees, journalists and other entities a First Amendment right to disclose, to obtain or to publish classified information relating to the national security of the United States? The authors offer deeply informed, thoughtful, and often surprising proposals for how to cope with these challenges in a twenty-first century democracy.

Specialized.

9780197519424 (ebook) : No price


Snowden, Edward J., 1983-


Pentagon Papers.


Government information--Law and legislation--United States.
Public records--Access control--United States.
National security--Law and legislation--United States.
Security classification (Government documents)--United States.
Leaks (Disclosure of information)--History.--United States
Freedom of the press--United States.
Government and the press--United States.

KF5753 / .B675 2021

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