New book about 1948 Georgia bomber crash

Friday, February 13th, 2009 - Skip Hulett

CLAIM OF PRIVILEGE: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets. By Barry Siegel. 384 pages. Harper, 2008. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter has written an absorbing account of the fraudulent origin of the government's "state secrets" legal tactic (or "claim of privilege") in ...