Ebook: Necessary secrets: national security, the media, and the rule of law

Without fear or favor? -- Secrets of the founders -- "Highly dangerous to the publick safety" -- Clear and present danger -- The black chamber -- The price of impunity -- The "patriotic press" -- To the "ramparts" -- Unnecessary secrets -- Ellsberg's epigones -- Black letter law -- A war on the press? -- The peculiar culmination -- No matter the cost.;An intensely controversial scrutiny of American democracy's fundamental tension between the competing imperatives of security and openness.