December 16, 2010

Wikileaks,the Espionage Act, and the Constitution

Constitutional law and national security scholars testified on the constitutionality of prosecuting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under… read more

Constitutional law and national security scholars testified on the constitutionality of prosecuting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act. Among the topics addressed were the nature of journalism, the extent of constitutional protections of the press in protecting the divulgence of classified information, and the amount of information that is categorized as classified. close

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Thomas "Tom" S. Blanton Director National Security Archive
Howard Coble U.S. Representative [R] North Carolina

John Conyers Jr. U.S. Representative [D] Michigan
Bill Delahunt U.S. Representative [D] Massachusetts
Louie Gohmert Jr. U.S. Representative [R] Texas
Charlie Gonzalez U.S. Representative [D] Texas
Bob Goodlatte U.S. Representative [R] Virginia
Abbe D. Lowell Attorney
Ralph Nader Founder Citizen Works
Ted Poe U.S. Representative [R] Texas
Gabriel Schoenfeld Senior Fellow Hudson Institute->Washington Office
Geoffrey R. Stone Distinguished Service Professor University of Chicago Law School
Stephen Vladeck Fellow Constitution Project->Supreme Court
Kenneth L. Wainstein Attorney

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Program ID:: 297115-1
Category:: House Committee
Format:: House Committee
Location:: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
First Aired:: Dec 16, 2010 | 10:06am EST | C-SPAN 3
Last Aired:: Dec 19, 2010 | 1:25pm EST | C-SPAN 1

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Dec 16, 2010 | 10:06am EST | C-SPAN 3
Dec 16, 2010 | 3:36pm EST | C-SPAN 3
Dec 16, 2010 | 11:04pm EST | C-SPAN 2
Dec 17, 2010 | 4:07am EST | C-SPAN 2
Dec 19, 2010 | 1:25pm EST | C-SPAN 1

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