Freedom at risk : secrecy, censorship, and repression in the 1980s / edited by Richard O. Curry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411) and index.

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

Twenty five essays critical of the Reagan Administrations widespread invasions of Constitutional rights through a variety of practices and policies.

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