State secrets privilege

Under increasing public scrutiny over a new pre-publication review policy, the Office of the Director National Intelligence released a statement…

A federal court dismissed nearly all of the claims in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the FBI spying on…

The Obama administration invoked the state secrets privilege last weekend in an effort to dismiss a federal lawsuit challenging the…

Experts collaborated and debated “the state of the state secrets privilege” at a forum hosted by American University Washington College of Law on…

A group of plaintiffs on Friday asked a judge to deny the government's request to vacate his rulings in a…

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department will move to restrict use of the state secrets privilege…

The Obama Administration’s approach to transparency in government is, thus far, only a slight improvement over the Bush Administration’s policies,…

The Obama administration argued in a Supreme Court filing last month that the "state secrets privilege" is rooted in the…

Attorney General Eric Holder told senators Wednesday that the Department of Justice would support a media shield law as long…

President Obama said today in a speech on the Guantanamo Bay detainees and national security that he remains committed to…