graymail
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of graymail
1975–80; gray 1 (in sense “indeterminate”) + (black)mail
Example Sentences
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“CIPA will thwart the graymail problem, but that does sometimes take time.”
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023
Congress enacted the Classified Information Procedures Act, or CIPA, in 1980 in an effort to reduce the chances that graymail would derail prosecutions of people in cases involving national security secrets.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
The law was intended to reduce the opportunities for so-called graymail in criminal cases involving national security, in which defendants threaten to expose sensitive secrets unless prosecutors drop charges against them.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Such closed-door judicial reviews were institutionalized in 1980 when Congress passed the Classified Information Procedures Act, better known as the graymail statute.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Government did try to get around the graymail defense in the ITT case by asking the judge to rule out irrelevant national security information privately in his chambers before going to trial.
From Time Magazine Archive
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