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Book Synopsis"Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in national security and freedom of the press." —Leonard Downie Jr.,
Washington PostTrade Review"Accurately titled, well documented, and persuasive." -- Hayden B. Peake - CIA, The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf
"A subtle and instructive brief…Scrupulously honest." -- Alan M. Dershowitz - New York Times Book Review
"Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in national security and freedom of the press in these testing times." -- Leonard Downie Jr. - Washington Post
"Illuminating, extremely intelligent, learned, engaging, and important. This is a truly great book…centrally relevant to manifold national-security debates today." -- Jack Goldsmith, author of The Terror Presidency
"An intellectually muscular argument that chisels away at some cherished myths…A timely, sure-to-be-controversial take on a problem that has no easy resolution." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"[A] provocative consideration of the conflict between the need for government secrecy and the role of a free press....succeeds in scrutinizing an issue of vital importance and putting it into a much broader context." -- Publishers Weekly
