Freedom at risk : secrecy, censorship, and repression in the 1980s /
Freedom at risk : secrecy, censorship, and repression in the 1980s /
edited by Richard O. Curry.
- xviii, 423 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411) and index.
The state of the First Amendment as we enter "1984" / Federal restrictions on the free flow of academic information and ideas / Thought control and the writing of history / The Reagan administration and the Freedom of Information Act / Coming : the big chill? / A proposal to limit government-imposed secrecy / Office of Management and Budget : the hidden power / The Morison case : the leaker as "spy" / The new seditious libel / The excludables / When the imagination of the writer is confronted by the imagination of the state / Paranoia - Reagan style : encounters with the USIA ; Choices : international education, civil liberties, and domestic politics during the 1980s / Disinformation and mass deception : democracy as a cover story / The language of the arms race : should the people limit government speech? / Presumption of guilt / The politics of America's latest drug scare / Conservative politics and surveillance : the cold war, the Reagan administration, and the FBI / The Reagan administration, the First Amendment, and FBI domestic security investigations / The new conspiracy trial : patterns in federal prosecution / The sanctuary movement / The Reagan administration and the federal judiciary / The Sharon verdict : wrong case, wrong place, wrong result / Beyond Westmoreland : the Right's attack on the press / Inaccuracy in media : Accuracy in Media rewrites the news and history / Richard O. Curry -- Thomas I. Emerson -- John Shattuck -- Thomas G. Paterson -- Diana M.T.K. Autin -- Janet Raloff -- Stephen H. Unger -- Donna A. Demac -- Steven Burkholder -- Judith Schenck Koffler -- Mark Schapiro -- Margaret Randall -- Richard O. Curry -- William Preston, Jr. and Ellen Ray -- Richard Delgado -- Nat Hentoff -- Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinarman -- Athan Theoharis -- Geoffrey R. Stone -- Michael Ratner and Eleanor Stein -- Michael McConnell and Reny Golden -- Jamie Kalven -- Martin Garbus -- Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir -- Louis Wolf. Introduction / Part I. The First Amendment : an uncertain future -- Part II. Censorship and secrecy -- Part III. The OMB : an Orwellian ministry of information -- The Samuel Loring Morison case : secrecy by judicial fiat -- IV. National security and seditious libel -- Part V. Ideological exclusion : the McCarran-Walter Act -- Part VI. USIA : the politicization of international educational and cultural affairs programs -- Part VII. Disinformation and psycholinguistic manipulation -- Part VIII. Drug testing -- Part IX. The FBI and domestic surveillance -- Part X. Conspiracy trials -- Part XI. The sanctuary movement -- Part XII. The Reagan administration and the courts -- Part XIII. Libel cases and other attacks on the media --
Twenty five essays critical of the Reagan Administrations widespread invasions of Constitutional rights through a variety of practices and policies.
0877225435 9780877225430 0877226601 9780877226604
87030343
Reagan, Ronald
Freedom of speech--United States
Freedom of the press--United States
Freedom of information--United States
Censorship--United States
Official secrets--United States
National security--Law and legislation--United States
United States--Politics and government--1981-1989
KF4770 / .F76 1988 JK468.S4 / F74
323.49
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411) and index.
The state of the First Amendment as we enter "1984" / Federal restrictions on the free flow of academic information and ideas / Thought control and the writing of history / The Reagan administration and the Freedom of Information Act / Coming : the big chill? / A proposal to limit government-imposed secrecy / Office of Management and Budget : the hidden power / The Morison case : the leaker as "spy" / The new seditious libel / The excludables / When the imagination of the writer is confronted by the imagination of the state / Paranoia - Reagan style : encounters with the USIA ; Choices : international education, civil liberties, and domestic politics during the 1980s / Disinformation and mass deception : democracy as a cover story / The language of the arms race : should the people limit government speech? / Presumption of guilt / The politics of America's latest drug scare / Conservative politics and surveillance : the cold war, the Reagan administration, and the FBI / The Reagan administration, the First Amendment, and FBI domestic security investigations / The new conspiracy trial : patterns in federal prosecution / The sanctuary movement / The Reagan administration and the federal judiciary / The Sharon verdict : wrong case, wrong place, wrong result / Beyond Westmoreland : the Right's attack on the press / Inaccuracy in media : Accuracy in Media rewrites the news and history / Richard O. Curry -- Thomas I. Emerson -- John Shattuck -- Thomas G. Paterson -- Diana M.T.K. Autin -- Janet Raloff -- Stephen H. Unger -- Donna A. Demac -- Steven Burkholder -- Judith Schenck Koffler -- Mark Schapiro -- Margaret Randall -- Richard O. Curry -- William Preston, Jr. and Ellen Ray -- Richard Delgado -- Nat Hentoff -- Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinarman -- Athan Theoharis -- Geoffrey R. Stone -- Michael Ratner and Eleanor Stein -- Michael McConnell and Reny Golden -- Jamie Kalven -- Martin Garbus -- Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir -- Louis Wolf. Introduction / Part I. The First Amendment : an uncertain future -- Part II. Censorship and secrecy -- Part III. The OMB : an Orwellian ministry of information -- The Samuel Loring Morison case : secrecy by judicial fiat -- IV. National security and seditious libel -- Part V. Ideological exclusion : the McCarran-Walter Act -- Part VI. USIA : the politicization of international educational and cultural affairs programs -- Part VII. Disinformation and psycholinguistic manipulation -- Part VIII. Drug testing -- Part IX. The FBI and domestic surveillance -- Part X. Conspiracy trials -- Part XI. The sanctuary movement -- Part XII. The Reagan administration and the courts -- Part XIII. Libel cases and other attacks on the media --
Twenty five essays critical of the Reagan Administrations widespread invasions of Constitutional rights through a variety of practices and policies.
0877225435 9780877225430 0877226601 9780877226604
87030343
Reagan, Ronald
Freedom of speech--United States
Freedom of the press--United States
Freedom of information--United States
Censorship--United States
Official secrets--United States
National security--Law and legislation--United States
United States--Politics and government--1981-1989
KF4770 / .F76 1988 JK468.S4 / F74
323.49