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Both affidavits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in support of a motion to quash a Federal grand jury subpoena served on Chomsky. The grand jury Chomsky was called before is officially investigating the release and distribution of the Pentagon Papers...
Chomsky moved to quash his subpoena on the grounds that his mere appearance before the grand jury would jeopardize his work as an independent scholar-journalist by weakening his ability to guarantee confidentiality to his sources of information. Like two other subpoenaed witnesses--Richard Folk, professor of international law at Princeton and Leonard S. Rodberg, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and an aide to Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska)--Chomsky argued that his forced appearance would thus violate the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press...
When first subpoenaed last August, Popkin attempted to quash the order by means of a similar argument. He contended that in keeping with the "Caldwell principle," his academic contacts with Ellsberg, an M.I.T. research associate, should be kept private. Earl Caldwell is a New York Times reporter whom a federal court recently excused from grand jury testimony, allowing him to protect confidential sources...
...best journalistic tradition. The Heights revealed that the BC administrators had "inadvertently" flimflammed a student scholarship fund out of $3 million and diverted the funds to other purposes; that the school had incurred an unannounced deficit of $10 million; that the University had made secret plans to quash student demonstrations--and suddenly the administration felt compelled to phase out funding for the Heights...
...best journalistic tradition. The Heights revealed that the BC administrators had "inadvertently" filmflammed a student scholarship fund out of $3 million and diverted the funds to other purposes; that the school had incurred an unannounced deficit of $10 million; that the University had made secret plans to quash student demonstration--and suddenly the administration felt compelled to phase out funding for the Heights...