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...page, and quoting Chief Justice Warren Burger, he noted that "this duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." Citing the British system as a good example, Acheson advocated a "severe Official Secrets Act" and a "self-governing body for the press" to stimulate more "self-restraint." He quoted Samuel Johnson's advice to Boswell not "to think foolishly...
...absence of the governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry. Without an informed and free press there cannot be an enlightened people...
With the lid off, newspapers that the Government had temporarily stifled quickly resumed their revelations. Other publications-and even a Senator -added to the unprecedented avalanche of classified documents and analysis (see following story). Yet the court's public brevity and restraint only masked intense personal differences among the Justices over the grave issues. These divisions emerged in the rare determination of all nine Justices to write their own, sometimes emotional, opinions...
...arguments; the dissenting Justices (Douglas, Hugo Black, William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall) did not even think the Government's case was worth considering. If only one of the other five joins them-and Stewart is considered an active possibility-then the papers will have won their battle against prior restraint. But the victory would not allow the press to behave irresponsibly. The question before the court this week is only whether the press can be prevented in advance from publishing classified information. In any case, it can still be punished after the fact...
LARGELY unremarked, the U.S. Government has been practicing a kind of prior restraint for three decades. By routinely stamping so much material as secret, it has cut off the flow of information to press and public, only to turn it back on at convenient moments or let it dribble out in calculated leaks. The disclosure of the Pentagon papers serves as a reminder of how much more information-hundreds of millions of pages-remains classified. A Washington bureaucrat can stamp as secret virtually anything he wants...