In Liberty Under Attack, a Century Foundation book, experts and activists including Gary Hart, John Podesta, David Cole and Ann Beeson report on the diverse actions, taken in the name of security, that undermine American liberties. These essays show the price the country has paid for failing to discuss incursion on freedoms adequately and openly, and they explain the consequences of these actions. Liberty Under Attack is edited by Richard C. Leone, president of The Century Foundation, and Greg Anrig, Jr., vice-president of programs. Purchase book here.
Patrick Radden Keefe,
The Century Foundation,
9/10/2008
In “Reinventing Transparent Government,” a new policy brief for The Century Foundation, Patrick Radden Keefe, fellow and expert on national security and civil liberties issues, calls for rolling back the secrecy of the Bush years and restoring transparency and accountability to American government. In the brief, Keefe explores the broad range of areas in which the United States government has adopted a policy of reflexive secrecy in recent years, and examines the extent to which that posture represents a departure from the American tradition of accountable, transparent government. Keefe makes five concrete proposals for specific changes a new administration could make to usher in a new era of sound, open, responsible government, and invokes James Madison’s admonition that “A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both.”
Patrick Radden Keefe,
The Century Foundation,
6/26/2008
Sometime today, the Senate is likely to approve the most comprehensive overhaul of American surveillance law since the Watergate era. Unless you're a government lawyer, a legal scholar, a masochist, or an insomniac, chances are you haven't read the 114-page bill. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
Jeffrey Laurenti,
The Century Foundation,
6/6/2008
In his recent address on nuclear weapons at the University of Denver, Sen. John McCain signaled a retreat from the in-your-face unilateralism of the Bush-Cheney years.
Patrick Radden Keefe,
The Century Foundation,
1/2/2008
America has a classification problem, and has for quite some time. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed that if all the newspapers in the United States printed all the classified documents produced by the government on any given day, there wouldn’t be room in the papers for anything else.
