The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government..

I don't think that the problems or the issues relate to any single piece of legislation. I think that they really do relate to the mindset that after….

If all these guys think that nothing is going to come out for 100 years, they're going to act a whole lot more boldly. So we need to get back into th….

I love the idea of a shield law; I don't know of any journalist who doesn't love the idea of a shield law. It's all in the details. Some of the shiel….

Another factor is the post-9/11 security mentality, which views sunlight as toxic and imagines that somehow bin Laden is dependent upon our governmen….

One of the things that will probably need to be addressed is in the treatment of history, i.e. the Presidential Papers Act. If they can act with impu….

The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licens….

The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by ….

Whistleblowers is another aspect that needs to be addressed. We have to restore the protections of whistleblowers and also the encouragement and rewa….

An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended,….

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything..

And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant f….

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large..

...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug..

There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate….

The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. ….

When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go.….

The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides. The press has hunk….

If you are a reporter trying to find out what the hell's going on in government now, you have a devilish time. It is murder to set up an interview. I….

I don't think the question is if should we have a shield law. I think the question is what kind of shield law we should have. Yes, I'd like to see a ….

Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a l….