National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press - The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On

National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press draws on the expertise of an extraordinary group of national security officials, journalists and academics to explore the issue first posed half-a-century ago in the Pentagon Papers decision: To what extent does the First Amendment give government employees, journalists and other entities a First Amendment right to disclose, to obtain or to publish classified information relating to the national security of the United States? The authors in this volume offer deeply informed, thoughtful, and often surprising proposals for how to cope with these challenges in a twenty-first century democracy.