The Obama Administration's Commitment to Transparency: A Progress Report

摘要

World War II records on topics like Russian agriculture levels - records that had already been released pubbcly - were reclassified and returned to secrecy.n In three cases already, the administration has brought criminal prosecutions against alleged leakers, and Attorney General Eric Holder himself approved the issuance of a subpoena against James Risen, my coauthor on the 2005 wiretapping story, seeking to force him to disclose confidential sources on a chapter of his book involving Iranian intelligence. President Obama demonstrated significant political will three months into office by deciding, in the face of protests from some of his own intelligence advisors, to make public the classified "torture memos" from Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that formed the legal underpinnings for the Bush administration's post-9/11 interrogation practices.