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It quickly becomes apparent to any person who has considerable experience with classified material that there is massive overclassification and that the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national security, but rather with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another.

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The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.

Erwin Griswold

Erwin Griswold

Erwin Griswold

Born: July 14, 1904

Died: November 19, 1994 (aged 90)

Bio: Erwin Nathaniel Griswold was an appellate attorney who argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Griswold served as Solicitor General of the United States under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.

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