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Wikileaks And The Institutional Framework For National Security Disclosures, Patricia L. Bellia
Wikileaks And The Institutional Framework For National Security Disclosures, Patricia L. Bellia
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WikiLeaks’ successive disclosures of classified U.S. documents throughout 2010 and 2011 invite comparison to publishers’ decisions forty years ago to release portions of the Pentagon Papers, the classified analytic history of U.S. policy in Vietnam. The analogy is a powerful weapon for WikiLeaks’ defenders. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Pentagon Papers case signaled that the task of weighing whether to publicly disclose leaked national security information would fall to publishers, not the executive or the courts, at least in the absence of an exceedingly grave threat of harm.
The lessons of the Pentagon Papers case for WikiLeaks, however, are …