One or more additional presenters will be selected from a call for papers.
This panel brings together some of the country’s leading experts on national security information and government transparency. The panel will evaluate the Obama administration’s commitment to an open and accountable government and consider whether its record is significantly different from that of the notoriously secretive Bush administration. In addition, the panelists will discuss the challenges technological developments pose to the government’s ability to control the dissemination of legitimate national security secrets. Among other things, topics will include the controversy surrounding WikiLeaks and the difficulties of prosecuting Julian Assange; the United States’ commitment to “Internet freedom” and the role private U.S. companies increasingly play in undermining that freedom at home and abroad; and the state secrets privilege.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.