David Cole

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David Cole is The Nation’s legal affairs correspondent and the George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University.

Official Secrets Law Official Secrets Law

At the close of its session, Congress considered two bills addressing classified information. One had been pending for more than a year, had more than a hundred co-sponsors, was ...

Nov 2, 2000 / David Cole

Hear No Evil, See No Evil Hear No Evil, See No Evil

To the Rehnquist Court, criminal justice is all too often a technical matter best left to the states.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / David Cole

The ‘Cuba Exception’ The ‘Cuba Exception’

The law governing the case of Elián González, the 6-year-old Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube after his mother drowned on the way here from Cuba, could not...

Jan 20, 2000 / David Cole

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