Word: graymailer
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...Nixon Administration to cover up its crimes." Others inveighed against "gray-mail," a lighter shade of blackmail that defense attorneys legitimately or illegitimately use to try to force the Government to reveal information that it wants to keep secret. But the Government did try to get around the graymail defense in the ITT case by asking the judge to rule out irrelevant national security information privately in his chambers before going to trial. The judge refused, on the grounds that he lacked authority...
...pervasiveness of graymail is shown by a secrecy and disclosure subcommittee report last year that pointed out at least 30 cases that were never prosecuted to avoid further disclosure at a public trial. "People who are somehow connected with intelligence information have something like a license not only to kill, but to lie, steal, cheat and spy," testified former Deputy Solicitor General Philip Lacovara. "There is not very much that can be done about...