On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Chris Palmer wrote: > The US does have the Espionage Act, which has been very rarely used. It > explicitly applies to interference with military matters, such as the > draft, during a time of war. The Pentagon Papers, and perhaps the > Afghanistan leaks, would fall ambiguously under this heading; the > proposition that a war powers resolution constitutes a formal > declaration of war has never been tested in court. One justice noted in > the decision on the Pentagon Papers that "nowhere are presidential wars > authorized." The decision is an instructive read:
Interestingly enough, the Pentagon Papers came up in one of my seminary classes two weeks ago. So did the draft. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
