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Between Safety And Transparency: Prior Restraints, Foia, And The Power Of The Executive, Devin S. Schindler
Between Safety And Transparency: Prior Restraints, Foia, And The Power Of The Executive, Devin S. Schindler
UC Law Constitutional Quarterly
The Freedom of Information Act, and, to a lesser extent, the Constitution, embody a democratic commitment to transparent and open government. Roughly balanced against this commitment is the need in selected circumstances to prevent the release of information that could lead directly or indirectly to tangible harm to America and its interests. Most recently, the debate between safety and transparency came to the forefront in the case American Civil Liberties Union v Department of Defense, where the Second Circuit ordered the President to release a series of nonconfidential but potentially inflammatory pictures showing prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison. …