Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
-The Promise
-the Pitfall
-Comparing Sunshine-Era Administrations
-Organization of the Book
2. Excessive Secrecy and Institutional Change
-Necessary and Unnecessary Secrecy
-What Do You Need to Know? What Do You Need to Not Know?
-The Consequences of Growing and Excessive Secrecy
-Explaining Excessive Secrecy
-Explaining Change in the Secrecy Regime
3. Explaining Change in the Secrecy Regime
-A “Pearl Harbor Sort of Purple American Fury”: 9/11 as a National Security Crisis and a Window of Opportunity
-The Rise of Mosaic Theory
-Tightening up FOIA Administration: Returning to Reagan-Bush Rules
-Classified Information
-Conclusion
4. Violating FACA from the Start: A History of Presidential Defiance
-The Bush-Cheney Administration
-The Clinton-Gore Administration
-Bush-Quayle: the Most FACA Compliant
-Reagan-Bush: FACA Defiers par Excellence
-Conclusion
5. Secret Law: The “Sinister Trend That Has Gone Relatively Unnoticed”
-The Legality of Secret Law
-Secret Law in the OLC before Bush-Cheney
-Clinton-Gore Did Not Invent It: Secret Law in the Bush-Quayle and Reagan-Bush OLCs
-Before Bush-Quayle
-Beyond the OLC, Part 1: Secret “Controlling Interpretations” of FISA
-Beyond the OLC, Part 2: National Security Directives
-Propaganda and Secret Law in the Bush-Cheney Years: Back to the OLC
-Conclusion
6. Presidential Secrecy in the Courts
-Secret Evidence
-State Secrets Privilege
7. Secret Science: From Bush-Cheney to Bush-Quayle
-Secret Science
-The Bush-Cheney Administration
-“An Unprecedented Pattern of Behavior”?
-The Clinton-Gore Administration
-The Bush-Quayle Administration
8. Secret Science: the Reagan-Bush Administration
-A “Dense Fog of Concealment” about Agent Orange: Secret Data, a Bungled Study, and the Impact on Vietnam Veterans Constitutional Limitations
-The Wider War to Protect Dioxins and Their Manufacturers
-Concealing and Fudging Mortality Rates at the VA
-The OMB’s New Filter
-Safeguarding Nuclear Secrets
-Other Ways to Keep Unclassified Information from Scientists
-Conclusion
9. When All Else Fails: Shredding, Burning, Deleting, or Whatever It Takes
-Nixon’s Advice
-The Shredding Party
-Shredding Secrets: When Blocking Access Is Not Enough
-National Security Archive versus Reagan, Bush, and Clinton
-Judicial Watch versus (Clinton-Gore) Department of Commerce
-The Bush-Cheney Administration
-Conclusion
10. “The Most Open and Transparent Administration in History”?
-The Promise
-A “Glass Half Full”?
-"These Are Not Reflections of a “Most Transparent Administration”
-Secret Law
-Secrecy and the Courts
-The Federal Advisory Committee Act
-Secret Science
-Epilogue: Snowden’s Revelations
11. Conclusion
-What Can Be Done?
Notes
Index
