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...JAILING LAST WEEK of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, is a dangerous infringement of the basic Constitutional rights supposedly guaranteed by this country to its citizens. The decision of Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity pushes the First Amendment closer to extinction and further advance the strained notion that grand juries exit above...
...what reason? The Boston grand jury is empowered to investigate the possession and distribution of the Pentagon Papers in Massachusetts. Popkin. In his March 27 testimony, told them that he had no knowledge of anyone planning to publish or distribute the papers, and that he was "never given definitive information that someone possessed the study in this state." This would appear to make his testimony of marginal importance from the outset, if indeed the government's only purpose was to probe the matter it has been empowered to investigate...
...seems that Federal attorneys seek to obtain information useful for political in timidation--information to stop "leaks" to newsmen and scholars from government sources Popkin agreed in court last week to answer the grand jury's question concerning Daniel Ellsberg '52. He agreed to provide the names of scholars with whom he had spoken who led him to his knowledge of the participants in the Pentagon Papers study. The government and the court were unmoved by his concessions...
...only names Popkin would not reveal were those of government officials and confidential sources. And since the government was not interested in the remainder of Popkin's testimony, this must have been...
...short, the government wants Popkin to act as an investigator for its Internal Security Division--a role specifically condemned by Supreme Court Justice Powell in the court's otherwise appalling decisions on press freedom last summer. We laud Popkin's courage in refusing to be a party to such shenanigans...