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6/8/22 Alison Frankel's On The Case 20:27:32
Alison Frankel's On The Case
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June 8, 2022
Newly released memos show DOJ weighed prosecuting newspapers in Pentagon Papers case
Alison Frankel
(Reuters) - A newly released pair of legal memos from 1971 — written by lawyers from the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel as the Nixon administration scrambled to respond to the Pentagon Papers leak — reveal just how calamitous the...
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Company: Knight Cancer Institute; WikiLeaks; THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; The National Security Agency; WP COMPANY LLC; US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.; Defense Department Software; PENTAGON CAPITAL PTY LIMITED; THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY
News Subject: (Government (1GO80); Government Institutions (1GO90); Government Litigation (1GO18); Judicial Cases & Rulings (1JU36); Legal (1LE33); National Judiciaries (1NA65))
Region: (Asia (1AS61); Eastern Asia (1EA61); Far East (1FA27); Indo China (1IN61); Southeast Asia (1SO64); Vietnam (1VI02))
Language: EN
Other Indexing: (Office of Legal Counsel; Nixon Justice Department; Knight First Amendment Institute; Vietnam Task Force; U.S. Supreme Court; White House; Knight Institute; Wikileaks; DOJ; Columbia University; National Security Agency; Washington Post; U.S. Justice Department; Defense Department; Pentagon Papers; New York Times) (Frederick Lambert; William Rehnquist; John Dean; John S. Dean; Thomas Kauper; Daniel Ellsberg; Anthony Russo; Anthony R. Russo; Stephanie Krent; Chelsea Manning; Edward Snowden; Julian Assange)
Keywords: PublicPolicy; litigation; litigation
Word Count: 1071
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