National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press
The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On
Edited by Geoffrey R. Stone and Lee C. Bollinger
Author Information
Geoffrey R. Stone, Professor of Law, University of Chicago, Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University's 19th president in 2002 and is the longest serving Ivy League president. He is Columbia's first Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Law School faculty, and one of the nation's foremost First Amendment scholars. Bollinger is the author or co-editor of numerous books on freedom of speech and press, including Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World (2021), The Free Speech Century (2018), and Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century (2010).
President Bollinger is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board and a co-founder of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, a center devoted to defending speech and press freedoms in the digital age through litigation, scholarship, and public education. In 2014, he established Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, a project that brings together experts and activists with faculty and students to advance understanding of international norms that protect expression and the free flow of information. He served as president of the University of Michigan from 1996 to 2002 and led the school's historic litigation in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, Supreme Court decisions reasserting that diversity is a compelling justification for affirmative action in higher education. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Bollinger is also the recipient of multiple honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law. Among them are Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (2020), The Free Speech Century (2018); Sex and the Constitution (2017); Top Secret: When Government Keeps Us In the Dark (2007); and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004). In 2013, President Obama appointed Mr. Stone to serve on a five-member Review Group on National Security Intelligence in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks about the NSA. The result was The NSA Report, which included 46 recommendations for improving the nation's foreign intelligence programs, many of which have been adopted and put into place. Thereafter, Mr. Stone served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence.
Contributors:
Stephen J. Adler, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters
Keith B. Alexander, retired four-star United States Army general who currently serves as Co-Founder, Chairman, and Co-CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity; GEN (ret) Alexander previously served as Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service, and as the Founding Commander of United States Cyber Command
John O. Brennan, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Bruce D. Brown, Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Kathleen Carroll, Former Executive Editor and Senior Vice President, The Associated Press
Richard A. Clarke, former American government official serving in national security roles
Stephen W. Coll, Dean, Columbia Journalism School, Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University
Avril Haines, Former White House Deputy National Security Advisor
Eric Holder, Former Attorney General of the United States
Jameel Jaffer, Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Jamil N. Jaffer, Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute, the Director of the National Security Law & Policy Program; Assistant Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University; and Senior Vice President at IronNet Cybersecurity
Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, and former editor-in-chief and Senior Vice President, the Chicago Tribune
Judith Miller, investigative journalist formerly with The New York Times, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and City Journal contributing editor
Lisa O. Monaco, Former Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Advisor, and Deputy National Security Advisor; Distinguished Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law & Security, New York University School of Law; Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
Michael Morell, Former Acting and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Ellen Nakashima, national security reporter for The Washington Post
Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
David E. Sanger, national security correspondent and senior writer, The New York Times
Louis Michael Seidman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Allison Stanger, Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow at Stanford University, Russell Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute
David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School
WilmerHale attorneys: Allison Aviki, Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, Rebecca Lee, Jessica Lutkenhaus, Seth P. Waxman & Paul R. Q. Wolfson