Block Quote by Floyd Abrams

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and…

— Floyd Abrams

Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are…

— Noam Chomsky

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“One of its analysts was Daniel Ellsberg, who at the time was back in the States compiling the report that—after he leaked it to…

— Mark Bowden

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York…

— Lionel Barber

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security.…

— Alan Dershowitz

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but…

— Howard Fineman

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and…

— Daniel Keys Moran

Today's biggest headlines are stories about people who thought they were doing something that was secret: Jesse Jackson's secret girlfriend and child, Monica Lewinski's…

— Ted Haggard

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world:…

— Noam Chomsky

“The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and activism—Martin Luther…

— Glenn Greenwald