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Executive Branch Letters and Documents

Attorney General Establishes New State Secrets Policies and Procedures, September 23, 2009

Policies and Procedures Governing Invocation of the State Secrets Privilege--memorandum from the Attorney General, September, 23, 2009

Legislative Initiatives and Hearings

State Secrets Protection Act of 2009, House Judiciary Committee Hearing, June 4, 2009

Examining the State Secrets Privilege: Protecting National Security While Preserving Accountability, Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, February 13, 2008

Judicial Materials

Oral Argument Video: Hepting v. AT&T (Nos. 06-17132, 06-17137) (9th Circuit, Argued August 15, 2007).

Oral Argument Video: Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. v. Bush (507 F.3d 1190 (2007), No. 06-36083.) (9th Circuit, argued August 15, 2007)

Oral Argument Audio: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, 08-15693EB (9th Circuit, en banc, argued December 15, 2009)

News Articles

US 'used court secrecy to cover up 9/11 blunder'

Government should stop state secrets being aired in court, says spy watchdog

U.S. Appeals Court Considers Whether Lawsuits Over Warrantless Wiretapping Can Proceed

N.Y. Billing Dispute Reveals Details of Secret CIA Rendition Flights

Academic Articles

David Aaron Tenenbaum, Government Ethics: The Ethics Of Using Formal Bureaucratic Rules To Block Accountability

Laura K. Donohue, The Shadow of State Secrets, 159 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW (2010).

Robert M. Chesney, Legislative Reform of the State Secrets Privilege, 13 ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 443 (2008).

Amanda Frost, The State Secrets Privilege and Separation of Powers, 75 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1931 (2007).

Books

Louis Fisher, In the Name of National Security: Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case (Univ. Press of Kansas 2006)

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