The Disclosure Game, Part 3: What Would Real Disclosure Actually Look Like?

The Pentagon wants a new power. Not a weapon, not a base, not a budget line — a word. Buried in a package of legislative proposals the Department of War quietly sent to Congress at the end of June is a request to let the secretary of defense unilaterally exempt "

A Memo Nobody Voted For On August 11, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion that quietly rewrote one of the oldest rules of American executive power. Executive privilege — the doctrine that lets a president keep certain communications secret from Congress, the courts, and the