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- Title
NATIONAL SECURITY LIES.
- Authors
Tung Yin
- Abstract
What legal consequences, if any, exist (or ought to exist) when the President or other Executive Branch officials mislead, dissemble, or outright lie and then, when exposed, justify the deceit in the name of national security? This is a complicated question to answer, because some lies (such as those by the Carter Administration to deny the existence of a rescue mission on the eve of the ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw) are so naturally understandable, while others (such as the false stories surrounding the capture of Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq and the killing of Sgt. Pat Tillman in Afghanistan) seem to have been issued for less defensible reasons.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NATIONAL security laws; OFFICIAL secrets; UNDERCOVER operations; IRAQ War, 2003-2011; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; IMPEACHMENTS; UNITED States v. Reynolds (Supreme Court case)
- Publication
Houston Law Review, 2018, Vol 55, Issue 3, p729
- ISSN
0018-6694
- Publication type
Article