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Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy Our press corps, intended to lead the fight against government secrecy, has become our country's most enthusiastic secrecy advocates.
  • chesney paper

    from Secrecy News:

    http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/11/revisiting_the_state_secrets_p.html

    A new assessment of the "state secrets privilege" disputes the claim presented in several other recent critiques that government reliance on the privilege to curtail or terminate sensitive litigation has increased in recent years.

    "I find that the Bush Administration does not differ qualitatively or quantitatively from its predecessors in its use of the privilege," concludes Robert M. Chesney in a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review.

    http://ssrn.com/abstract=946676

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