Legal Opinion · Dissent
In Re Adele Halkin
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 31, 1979No. 18-5218Published
1DissentWilkey, Circuit Judge
The onslaught against the CIA started in late 1974 when an investigative reporter for a national newspaper charged in a series of articles that the agency had engaged in a “massive illegal domestic intelligence operation” in direct violation of its charter.1 In the months that followed, media attention riveted on alleged CIA lawlessness with an intensity matched in recent times only by coverage of the Watergate scandals.2 This *201publicity can only be described as massive and concentrated. The prevailing atmosphere was such that some Congressmen even expressed concern that circumspect…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Sheppard v. MaxwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Pell v. ProcunierSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Arnett v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
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