Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law

ISBN: 0393339939

Author: Schoenfeld, Gabriel

Condition: New

"Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in national security and freedom of the press." -Leonard Downie Jr., Washington PostGabriel Schoenfeld "brilliantly illuminates" (Wall Street Journal) a growing rift between a press that sees itself as the heroic force promoting the publics "right to know" and a government that needs to safeguard information vital to the effective conduct of foreign policy. A masterful contribution to the enduring challenge of interpreting the First Amendment, Necessary Secrets offers a gripping account of how our national security, now and across the American past, has been compromised by disclosure of classified information.