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15 Hum. Rts. 39 (1987-1988)
Why I Won My Case against the FBI

handle is hein.journals/huri15 and id is 99 raw text is: Why I Won My Case Against The FBI A personal story of 20 years of invisible persecution by Frank Wilkinson A popular Government with- out popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologeue to a Farce or Trag- edy...a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power, which knowledge gives. James Madison, 1822 The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose con- tours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amend- ment. Hugo Black N.Y. Times v. U.S. On August 25, 1987, Federal Dis- trict Judge A. Wallace Tashima signed a settlement order in the case of Wilkinson v. Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. The order called for the FBI to remove from its files some 132,000 pages documenting its sur- veillance and disruption of the Na- tional Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL). Those docu- ments are to be placed under seal for 50 years in the National Ar- chives. In so doing, the Court effectively

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