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773 NBC News A Division of 4001 Nebraska Avenue,N.W. National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Washington. D.C. 20016 202-686-4200 January. 198 b6 b7C American Bar Association Standing' Cormittee on Law and National Security. University of Virginia Law School Route 3 Box 3 Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 Dear Although I have. been active in various American. b6 Bar Association committees for more than a decade, I. b7C was asked only recently to become affiliated with the Standing Committee on Law and National Security which I was not familiar with the Committee's. publication, "Intelligence Report." May I tell you with great sadness that I was stunned by the first copy to cross my desk. I found the content to be shrill and seriously out of balance. The December 1983 edition is an anti-media, pro intelligence community. diatribe lacking the sort of evenhandedness and maturity publication. I do not understand how it can be issued under the sponsorship of the A.B.A.. polygraph tests to stop leaks) is not difficult to under- stand because obviously the media, as it currently. perceives its role, would best be served by regulations that permit a maximum of leakage from the Executive branch and a minimum of punishment, or no punishment at all, for those guilty of perpetrating the leaks." which media? some newspeople have honest, good-faith, unselfish reasons. for opposing polygraph examinations? Apparently not, or The next story: "Completely unnoticed by the media,. the convictions of w. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, former top-ranking FBI officials, were ordered vacated by the. United Stetes Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on November 15."'' Completely unnoticed? How does its editors had, they would have discovered that we discussed not to run it. The Justice Department itself described 1/2s/8y sAm?t ENCLOSURE