CIVIL LIBERTIES

FBI BACKS OFF JACK ANDERSON ARCHIVE RAID

DESERET MORNING NEWS - The son of the late Jack Anderson said Wednesday
that the longtime investigative reporter's family is pleased with the
FBI's abandonment of its efforts to recover government documents leaked
to his father. "This takes the pressure off, and now we can proceed with
the plan of archiving them and making them available for scholarly
research," said Kevin N. Anderson, a lawyer in Salt Lake City. He said
the family plans to donate the remainder of the available documents to
George Washington University, which already has ownership of an archive
of about 200 boxes of Jack Anderson's works. The documents, which some
officials said might have contained classified information, were among
the late columnist's confidential papers. They touched off a dispute
last spring between the FBI and the journalist's family. At the heart of
the disagreement were concerns about government investigations of
reporters and whether such inquiries might violate constitutional
protections of the press."

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