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WCDT strips 3951-3955 (4th to 8th March 2019)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Tova on 07 Mar 2019, 14:03 ---Rightly or wrongly, freedom of the press does not extend to state secrets.
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Agreed.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Tova on 07 Mar 2019, 14:03 ---Rightly or wrongly, freedom of the press does not extend to state secrets.
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Actually, that's not true. The decisions in the _Progressive_ case and the Pentagon papers cases conclude that the freedom of the press *does* extend to state secrets. Prior restraint only applies to secrets which would pose a "clear and present danger to national security". There is, to my mind, some question of the Constitutionality of the secrecy provisions in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. I doubt that anybody's going to challenge it, at least as long as it isn't applied too much.
brasca:
It could be a bedroom, but if Brun doesn't have a problem sleeping standing up why not clear out a closet in Rene's current apartment?
Oenone:
It might be a “Harry Potter” closet — big enough to walk into and to have a twin bed but not big enough for much else.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 07 Mar 2019, 20:59 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 07 Mar 2019, 14:03 ---Rightly or wrongly, freedom of the press does not extend to state secrets.
--- End quote ---
Actually, that's not true. The decisions in the _Progressive_ case and the Pentagon papers cases conclude that the freedom of the press *does* extend to state secrets. Prior restraint only applies to secrets which would pose a "clear and present danger to national security". There is, to my mind, some question of the Constitutionality of the secrecy provisions in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. I doubt that anybody's going to challenge it, at least as long as it isn't applied too much.
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Some of the earliest court cases regarding the press and newsletters, we framed in terms of espionage, back in the early 1700s. They're now considered political trials. In almost all of the cases, the sentence was death. But then, freedom of the press was not yet a thing at the time.
Maybe they should get Brun a box-bed. Very cosy, very dark.
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