Epstein Secrets

—as well as the stakes involved in the debate over disseminating massive amounts of classified material throughout the world in the blink of an eye. Julian Assange and Wikileaks Important as it was as a First Amendment precedent, the Pentagon Papers case was First Amendment “child play” compared with the Wikile

that I had committed the alleged act in the city of Turin on January 27%, 2005. I checked my calendar and discovered that I was teaching students at Harvard Law School on that day and then attending a lecture by a prominent federal judge. I could not possibly have been in Turin or engaged in any criminal act there.

versation with me. Also included in that category, at least to some degree, are Michael Milken, the financier; Conrad Black, the newspaper mogul; and Julian Assange of Wikileaks. A third category would include people who were somewhat well known, but whose trial brought them considerably more fame and/or infamy

involving religious teachings. He has done so, for example, with the great Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, and with others as well. He also has debated me at the Harvard Law School. Although I am neither a rabbi nor a priest, I am confident that I am right and he is wrong under Catholic Doctrine. Perhaps it takes chutzpah to cha

ll Street Journal, June 3, 2015. Also, Justice Department official who requested anonymity, interview with author. 51 “Tor’s importance”: Hastings, “Julian Assange.” Also see Julian Assange, intro- duction to Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2012). 51 Tor was a creation

ld Edgar, the Julius Silver Profes- sor in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia Law School; and to Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, for sharing with me their legal perspective on the espionage statutes and other legal issues. I thank Edward Lucas of The Economist for recommendin