ralph nader, professor steve vladeck, mr. gabriel schoenfeld, attorney kenneth wainstein, thomas blanton, director of the national security archive, attorney abby lowell, well known to this committee in two previous congresses. and our first witness, professor jeffrey stone, professor of law and former dean at the university of chicago law school. he is -- he has written quite a bit of constitutional law, several folks, the first amendment, government power. one of his books, perlis times, free speech in wartime was just recently praised by justice elena kagan is a masterpiece of constitutional history and promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech. we are honored by you being here and we ask you to be our first witness in all statements of all of our witnesses will be introduced in their entirety into the record. welcome. >> chairman conyers, judge gohmert, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to speak with two of these issues. i'd like to address

ralph nader, professor steve vladeck, mr. gabriel schoenfeld, attorney kenneth wainstein, thomas blanton, director of the national security archive, attorney abby lowell, well known to this committee in two previous congresses. and our first witness, professor jeffrey stone, professor of law and former dean at the university of chicago law school. he is -- he has written quite a bit of constitutional law, several folks, the first amendment, government power. one of his books, perlis times, free speech in wartime was just recently praised y justice elena kagan is a masterpiece of constitutional history and promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech. we are honored by you being here and we ask you to be our first witness in all statements of all of our witnesses will be introduced in their entirety into the record. welcome. >> chairman conyers, judge gohmert, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to speak with two of these issues. i'd like to address t

ralph nader, professor steve vladeck, mr. gabriel schoenfeld, attorney kenneth wainstein, thomas blanton, director of the national security archive, attorney abby lowell, well known to this committee in two previous congresses. and our first witness, professor jeffrey stone, professor of law and former dean at the university of chicago law school. he is -- he has written quite a bit of constitutional law, several folks, the first amendment, government power. one of his books, perlis times, free speech in wartime was just recently praised by justice elena kagan is a masterpiece of constitutional history and promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech. we are honored by you being here and we ask you to be our first witness in all statements of all of our witnesses will be introduced in their entirety into the record. welcome. >> chairman conyers, judge gohmert, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to speak with two of these issues. i'd like to address

steve vladeck described i think narrowing the provision for each of these different categories is going to make a more targeted legislation. >> then let me take this to, the injury to the united states. what does that mean and how can that be proven? >> that is also another sticking point in the whole wikileaks situation. i think you heard a little bit of that today. the question okay how damaging was that? may be back in the first charge that came out about dod, the dod documents about afghanistan, there were troop movements and alike. a lot of that stuff ended up getting taken out later on. is obviously sliding scale and when you are dealing with the first amendment 1 of the justifications especially if you are looking to prosecute a news organization, and organizations sort of in the shoes of a news outlet, you have to look at whether you are justifying the prosecution and the encouragement on their press activities in order to address arms of the nation. that is one of the big issues that the partners looking at right now going throughout the things that have been released to these