James C. Goodale was the 37-year-old chief
counsel for The New York Times in 1971 when it published a leaked
version of a secret government study of U.S. policies in Vietnam that
came to be called the Pentagon Papers.
Now 79, he sees similarities in the way the Nixon and Obama administrations have battled with the media.
“We've come full circle, with respect to
national security and the First Amendment,” he said. “Nixon was bad on
that; Obama is catching up.”
Goodale is among a growing number of
open-government advocates and whistle-blowers who say the president
hasn't delivered on his campaign promise to make his administration the
most transparent in history.
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