In the Name of National Security: Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case

by Louis Fisher

Book Overview

When a B-29 bomber exploded over Georgia in 1948, the victims' families were denied access to crucial information relating to the accident because the federal government claimed such access would endanger national security. When the Supreme Court upheld that claim in United States v. Reynolds (1953), a new precedent was established, allowing the executive branch to assert an all-encompassing "state secret privilege" as a basis for withholding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700614648
• ISBN13: 9780700614646
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"