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A newspaper reporter gets a secret report from a former intelligence officer that reveals that the central intelligence agency bungled a spy operation in another country many years ago having determine that there is no us threat to national security the editor of the newspaper plans to publish excerpts from the airport the government however doesn’t want the public to read the airport and goes to court to halt publication what legal argument will the government lawyers present

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I know this is late, but the answer is prior restraint.

Prior restraint is judicial suppression of material that would be published or broadcasted, claiming that it is libelous or harmful.
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