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127 Harv. L. Rev. 512 (2013-2014)
The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information

handle is hein.journals/hlr127 and id is 524 raw text is: ARTICLE THE LEAKY LEVIATHAN: WHY THE GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS AND CONDONES UNLAWFUL DISCLOSURES OF INFORMATION David E. Pozen CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................513 I. WHAT WE KNOW (AND THINK WE KNOW) ABOUT LEAKS......................................521 A. The Legal Framework ................................................................................ ...522 B. Leaking Practices .................................................................................................... 528 C. Enforcem ent Practices.............................................................................................534 D . C onsequ en ces .....................................................................................................................54 2 II. ORDER IN DISORDER: THE LOGIC OF LEAKINESS..................................................544 A. The Inadequacy of the Constraint-Based Narrative .......................548 i. Catching Culprits ...............................................548 2. Bringing Cases .............................................................................................................551 3. Additional Evidence.-..............................................554 B. Leaking's Systemic Rewards.............. ................. .... . ....559 r. Plants Need to Be Watered - with Leaks................... ........-559 2. Plants, Leaks, and Pleaks........................................565 3. External Signaling and Executive Self-Binding........................ .573 4. Manufactured Scarcity and Intragovernmental Communication ........ ...577 5. Pacifying and Coopting Powerful Groups ...............................................................579 III. ORDER IN DISORDER: DISCIPLINING LEAKERS WITH AND WITHOUT LAW ....586 A. Internal Signaling and Informal Sanctions..................... ........587 B. Senior Officials, Junior Officials, and Mixed Deterrence .....................592 C. Substantive N orm s.................................................................................................. .596 IV. SOME NOTES ON LEAKINESS AND EXECUTIVE POWER ..........................................605 A. Revisiting the Source/Distributor Divide......................................................................606 B. Silver Linings and Media Narratives.............................................................................609 C. Seeing Like a National Security State...........................................................................616 D. Democracy, Discourse, and Rule of Law .......................................................................621 E. Comparative Convergence, Obama's Uptick, and the Road Ahead.............................626 V. CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................633 512

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