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Judge David Tatel hinted at the nature of this case when he wrote that he might have granted the reporter’s request, had the leak been “less harmful to national security or more vital to public debate.” Surely prosecutors will not decide what leaks meet this standard, and hopefully judges will not, either. To say that freedom of the press exists ad hoc, in cases that meet some mutable standard of harmlessness and vitality, is to say that it does not exist at all. Any damning exposé of government policy could...
...Summers added that he would not be able to accede to every Faculty request...
...covert CIA officer who is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a retired U.S. diplomat and an early postwar critic of the President's prewar justification for the Iraq invasion. Wilson figures in the story because he made a secret trip to Niger in 2002 at the CIA's request to determine if that country had sold a uranium ore known as yellowcake to Iraq, a key piece of evidence for the Administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Wilson informed the CIA upon his return that he had found no evidence of an Iraqi purchase...
...what would be his only rebuttal of the meeting, Summers said he would “consider very seriously” the request to release a transcript of his comments, but said that he currently does not intend...
Waters said at the meeting that many professors are “held hostage to fear” and are afraid to voice their discontent for fear of retribution, citing professors who e-mail her expressing disapproval of University policy, but request that she destroy the e-mails after reading them...