Pentagon Papers

The case concerns police records that the city of LA itself (inadvertently) provided to journalist Ben Camacho.

RCFP attorneys helped journalist Jerry Geleff challenge an unconstitutional court order that forced him to unpublish his reporting.

Daniel Hale was charged in May 2019 with leaking classified government documents about drone warfare to a reporter.

Orders meant to prevent information from being published are nothing new — and neither are RCFP’s efforts to fight them.

As the government uses spying laws to prosecute leakers, the problem of overclassification takes on new urgency.