Dershowitz: The American Public Has the Right to See the FISA Abuse Memo and Make Their Own Judgment

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DERSHOWITZ: "First I want to congratulate my friend and former student Joe Kennedy for an absolutely outstanding response last night. Now, as to your question, look, I’ve been in the area of national security releases, Pentagon papers now for over 50 years. In almost every case when it gets released people throw up their arms and they say what was the problem here? What was the national security issue here? Why are we so concerned? We should always err in favor of releasing rather than withholding. Most claims to censorship based on national security turn out to be overstated, overwrought and sometimes out and out false. So I don’t think there are any great risks. If it were great risks, believe me, the national security people would be on top of it in a minute. So I think this is something where the American public has the right to see it, make their own judgment as to its content, and I’m looking forward to reading it."