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Necessary secrets : national security, the media, and the rule of law /

An intensely controversial scrutiny of American democracy's fundamental tension between the competing imperatives of security and openness.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schoenfeld, Gabriel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Freedom of information > United States.
Freedom of the press > United States.
Security classification (Government documents) > United States.
Official secrets > United States.
National security > United States.
Rule of law > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Without fear or favor?
  • Secrets of the founders
  • "Highly dangerous to the publick safety"
  • Clear and present danger
  • The black chamber
  • The price of impunity
  • The "patriotic press"
  • To the "ramparts"
  • Unnecessary secrets
  • Ellsberg's epigones
  • Black-letter law
  • A war on the press?
  • The peculiar culmination
  • No matter the cost.