Word: rodberg
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Gravel's motion arises from a grand jury subpoena served on Leonard S. Rodberg, a physicist at the Institute for Policy Studies whom Gravel hired as an administrative aide to help publish his edition of the Pentagon study...
...Rodberg asked Garrity to quash the subpoena last month on the grounds that it violated Gravel's legislative immunity, Garrity ruled that Rodberg could refuse to discuss actual Congressional business but that he must still testify. Gravel and Rodberg then appealed to the circuit court...
...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...
...Rodberg and Falk had argued Sept. 10 that confidential association necessarily prevented them from testifying. Rodberg claimed legislative immunity: Falk cited academic freedom and his connection with various publications. Although Rodberg was exempted from discussing actual Congressional business, the ruling was seen as a victory for those who advocate increased investigative power for the grand jury...
William P. Homans Jr., Popkin's lawyer, last night suggested an additional rationale for the second subpoena: following the ruling on Rodberg and Falk, the government can now proceed undaunted in its efforts to widen the jury's scope and power...