The panel looked at various ways in which government secrecy has increased in the past eight years, and explored an agenda for the future. Issues examined include the use of the state secrets doctrine and executive privilege; classification and declassification of documents; the Freedom of Information Act; and other issues. What needs to be done to further the goal of a more transparent government?

Panelists included:

• Moderator, Judge Patricia M. Wald, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuits (Windows Media)
• Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel for the National Security Archives at The George Washington University (Windows Media)
• Richard Samp, Chief Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation (Windows Media)
• Geoffrey Stone, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School (Windows Media)

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