Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equally glad that this and other cases have alerted people to the threat posed by the use of grand juries to the First Amendment and the free inquiry I believe it protects," Popkin said...
Stemer met last Friday with william Olson chief of the justice Department's Internal Security Division to discuss ways to arrange Popkin's release. Stemer yesterday declined comment on the meeting but a high level source reported that it was a full and fair hearing of the issues involved The source further reported that the meeting "did have a role in getting Popkin...
...Popkin said in a news conference yesterday that grand juries "have become. the government's feel for gathering intelligence," and warned that "today we may be faced with as great a threat from the use of grand juries as was ever posed by Joe McCarthy...
...Popkin added that "there's an incredible bag of tricks that go along with grand juries in this country," and said that people should not worry so much about the privileges of scholars and journalists but instead should "clean up the grand jury...
...Popkin praised his attorneys. William P. Homans '41, and Daniel Klubock, and many other people in and out of prison for giving him the strength to adhere to any principles...