Abbe Lowell’s Leak as Governance Theory

By: emptywheel Thursday February 3, 2011 9:46 am

Josh Gerstein links to this fascinating filing from Abbe Lowell, the lawyer who successfully got leak charges against AIPAC employees dismissed, and now representing a former State Department contractor, Stephen Kim, alleged to have leaked Top Secret information on North Korea to Fox. Gerstein explains: Stephen Kim, who worked at State as an intelligence adviser before [...]

Rule of Law Has Broken Down for Secrets, Just Like Everything Else

By: emptywheel Monday October 18, 2010 4:59 am

Michael Isikoff takes a story Jack Goldsmith already treated and raises the logical conclusions. As I noted, Jack Goldsmith asked John Rizzo why it was that Woodward could publish the proceedings of a briefing from which even top Obama officials–like John Podesta–were excluded. Rizzo responded, Simple. When a President himself is a key source and [...]

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