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This was not an angry or accusatory group; rather the opposite. It proposed to expand the regime of national security as a regulatory mode. But it did so tentatively, and without conviction; certainly without any sense of urgency. There was even a touch of apprehension: had we already gone far enough
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All loyalty cases are security cases, but the converse is not true. A man who talks too freely when in his cups, or a pervert who is vulnerable to blackmail, may both be security risks although both may be loyal Americans. The Commission recommends that as far as possible such cases be considered on
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The Commission called its report "the first complete and detailed study" of the government's restrictions on access to information and the prosecution of those found to violate those restrictions.
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authored the resolution that established the Commission. Representative Walter sponsored it in the House of Representatives.
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Its report made a distinction between offenses based in disloyalty and lapses in security:
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and the two houses of Congress each named four members. Those appointed by Vice President
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a basis of suitability to safeguard the individual from an unjust stigma of disloyalty.
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Secrecy: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy
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Senator Daniel Moynihan summarized the Commission's report in 1997:
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Index

Loyd Wright
American Bar Association
Dwight D Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
John C. Stennis
Norris Cotton
William M. McCulloch
Francis E. Walter
James L. Noel Jr.
Edwin L. Mechem
James P. McGranery
Franklin D. Murphy
Carter L. Burgess
Louis S. Rothschild
Hubert Humphrey





Secrecy: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy
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9780788146855


"Attorney to Head Security Inquiry"


"12 Chosen for U. S. Panel To Study Loyalty Program"
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