Do You Think the Justice Department Has to Disclose the Classified Information?

Defense lawyers have come up with a strategy called gray mail, in which what they say to the government is, if you want to prosecute our guy on classified or secret information, you have to disclose the classified or secret info. Under the sixth amendment, we have a right to confront it and to contradict it. And the government says, we don't want to disclose theclassified information. That's why we brought this lawsuit, and a statute was passed,. Court decisions have been rendered trying to strike an appropriate balance between the defendants sixth amendment rights to confront evidence against him and the government's legitimate power to keep certain material classified.