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Gilligan is currently studying girls' development through high school at the Emma Willard School, a private girls' school in Troy, New York...
...Willard conceded that the order would permit the head of any federal agency to require all his employees holding security clearances to submit to lie detectors on a random basis, whenever an unauthorized disclosure of classified information was being investigated. There need not be any reason to suspect the person being tested...
...really? Last week Texas Democrat Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Government Operations Committee, held hearings on the order. Richard K. Willard, a deputy assistant attorney general who headed the interagency panel that drew up the directive, admitted that he could not dispute a report by the General Accounting Office that at least 113,000 employees, not 1,000, would be covered by the future censorship agreements that were originally touted as applying only to an elite...
...hearing, as Willard looked on impassively, former Under Secretary of State George Ball assailed the directive as "an appalling document" and "an absurdity." Charged Ball: "This would require the establishment of a censorship bureaucracy far larger than anything known in our national experience." Charles Rowe, editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, noted that the clearance rules will enable future officials to review the proposed public statements of earlier ones and protested, "If an Administration can censor the comments and criticism of its predecessors, the potential for political mischief is frightening...
...individual privacy and First Amendment rights. The censorship rule--a ban affecting nearly 113,000 workers in the highest levels of government--would effectively curtail informed criticism, permitting one Administration to censor the writings of previous Administration officials. In last week's House hearings, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Willard, the Administration official who drafted the proposals, characterized the nondisclosure pledge as an "appropriate" counterintelligence technique...