Resources

Executive Branch

Gary L. Hausken, The Value of a Secret: Compensation for Imposition of Secrecy Orders Under the Invention Secrecy Act, 119 MILITARY LAW REVIEW 201 (1988).

DOJ Procedures

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

Views of the Justice Department on the State Secrets Privilege, Letter from Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, March 31, 2008

DOJ Press Releases

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

Executive Orders

Presidential Records (Executive Order 13489, Revocation of Executive Order 13233), President Barack Obama, January 21, 2009

Further Implementation of the Presidential Records Act (Executive Order 13233, Revocation of Executive Order 12667), President George W. Bush, November 1, 2001

Presidential Records, President Ronald Reagan (Executive Order 12667), January 18, 1989

Military Guidelines

Practical Guidelines for Invoking the State Secrets Privilege, U.S. Army Memorandum, April 24, 2001

Inspector General Reports

A Review of FBI's Actions in Connection with Allegations Raised by Contract Linguist Sibel Edmonds, DOJ--Office of the Inspector General, January 2005

Legislative Branch

Reform of the State Secrets Privilege, Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 2nd Session (Jan. 29, 2008).

 Sen. Patrick Leahy, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary on the State Secrets Protection Act, S. Rep. No. 110-442 (2008). 

State Secrets Protection Act of 2008, Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 2nd Session (July 31, 2008).

Subcommittee on Secrecy and Disclosure, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 95th Cong., Report on National Security Secrets and the Administration of Justice (Comm. Print 1978). 

CRS Reports

The State Secrets Privilege: Preventing the Disclosure of Sensitive National Security Information During Civil Litigation, March 28, 2011. 

The State Secrets Privilege and Other Limits on Litigation Involving Classified Information, May 28, 2009

Retroactive Immunity Provided by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, July, 25, 2008

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of Selected Issues, July 7, 2008

Legislative Initiatives

 State Secrets Protection Act, H.R. 984, 111th Cong. (2009)

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

State Secrets Protection Act, S. 417, 111th Cong. (2009)

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

Senator Edward M. Kennedy Introduces the State Secret Protection Act (S.2533), January 23, 2008

Judicial Branch

Sudha Setty’s Research Paper No 12-4: Judicial Formalism and the State Secrets Privilege.   

Oral Argument Audio Files

Oral Argument Audio: Jewel v. NSA, 10-15616 (9th Circuit, argued August 31, 2011).

Oral Argument Audio: Hepting v. AT&T, 09-17133 (9th Circuit, argued August 31, 2011). 

Oral Argument Audio: Binyamin Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., 08-15693 (9th Circuit, argued February 9, 2009)

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

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

Books

Rendition to Torture, by Alan W. Clarke (2012) 

Mary L. Volcansek & John F. Stack, Courts and Terrorism: Nine Nations Balance Rights and Security (2011).

Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (2010), c. 9.

Robert F. Turner & John Norton Moore, Legal Issues in the Struggle Against Terror (2010).

David S. Kris & J. Douglas Wilson, National Security Investigations and Prosecutions (2007).

Christopher Mueller & Laird Kirkpatrick, Federal Evidence, V.2 (Thomson West 3d. ed. 2007).

Robert Pallitto & William Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007). 

Geoffrey Stone, Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Md., 2007).

James E. Baker, In The Common Defense: National Security Law For Perilous Times (2007).

Alasdair Roberts, Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press 2006).

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

Edward Imwinkelried, The New Wigmore: Evidentiary Privileges, V. 2 (Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2002).

Morton H. Halperin & Daniel Hoffman, Freedom vs. National Security (1977).

Academic Articles

 David Aronofsky, The War on Terror: Where We Have Been, Are, And Should Be Going, 40 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 90. 

Eric Connelly (2012): State Secrets and Redaction: The Interaction Between Silence and Ideographs, Western Journal of Communication, 76:3, 236-249

Sarah Topy, To Dismiss On The Pleadings Or Not To Dismiss On The Pleadings: Extraordinary Rendition And The State Secrets Doctrine Under The Reynolds Framework In Mohamed V. Jeppesen, 80 University of Cincinnati Law Review

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

Richard D. Rosen, Drones and the U.S. Courts, 37 WILLIAM MITCHELL LAW REVIEW 5280 (2011).

Steven D. Schwinn, State Secrets, Open Justice, and the Criss-Crossing Evolution of Privilege in the United States and the United Kingdom, 29 L'OBSERVATEUR DES NATIONS UNIES 171 (2011).

John Harrington, Sean Murphy, Jason Poblete, Jonathan M. Meyer, National Security, 45 INTERNATIONAL LAWYER 425 (2011)

Geoffrey R. Stone, Secrecy and Self-Governance, 56 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL LAW REVIEW 81 (2011).

Peter M. Shane, The Obama Administration and the Prospects for a Democratic Presidency in a Post-9/11 World, 56 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL LAW REVIEW 27 (2011).

Melanie Reid, Secrets Behind Secrets: Disclosure of Classified Inforamtion Before and During Trial and Why CIPA Sould Be Revamped, 35 SETON HALL LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL 272 (2011). 

Kenneth A. Klukowski, Making Executive Privilege Work: A Multi-Factor Test In An Age of Czars and Congressional Oversight, 59 CLEVELAND STATE LAW REVIEW 31 (2011). 

Jasminka Kalajdzic, Litigating State Secrets: A Comparative Study of National Security Privilege in Canadian, U.S. and English Civil Cases, SSRN ELibrary (2011).

J. Steven Gardner, Comment, The State Secret Privilege Invoked in Civil Litigation: A proposal for Statutory Relief, 29 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 567 (1994).

Telman, D. A. Jeremy, Intolerable Abuses: Rendition for Torture and the State Secrets Privilege (March 3, 2011). Valparaiso University Legal Studies Research Paper.

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., Transparency, Accountability, and Competency: An Essay on the Obama Administration, Google Government, and the Difficulties of Securing Effective Governance, 65 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 449 (2011).

Erin E. Bohannon, Breaking the Silence: A Challenge to Executive Use of the State Secrets Privilege to Dismiss Claims of CIA Torture in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., 65 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 621 (2011).

Michael P. Goodwin, A National Security Puzzle:  Mosaic Theory and the First Amendment Right of Access in the Federal Courts, 32 HASTINGS COMMUNICATIONS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 179 (2010).

Lee Tien, Litigating the State Secrets Privilege, 42 CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 675 (2010).

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

Kathleen Clark, “A New Era Of Openness?” Disclosing Intelligence To Congress Under Obama, 26 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY No. 3 (2010).

William Angelley, Harsh Realities of the State Secrets Privilege, 46 TRIAL 28 (2010).

Kathleen Clark, The Architecture Of Accountability: A Case Study Of The Warrantless Surveillance Program, 2010 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 357.

Christopher Kutz, Secret Law and the Value of Publicity, 22 RATIO JURIS 197 (2009).

Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger, Executive Privilege and the Bush Administration, 24 JOURNAL OF LAW & POLITICS 1 (2008).

Kenneth James Ryan, Informing the Enemy: Feeding the Counter-Intelligence Needs of Our Adversaries, 25 JOHN MARSHALL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER & INFORMATION LAW 681 (2008).

Matthew Heller, The Coffee Table with Ears, 20 CALIFORNIA LAWYER 16 (2010).

Steven D. Schwinn, The State Secrets Privilege in the Post-9/11 Era, 30 PACE LAW REVIEW 778 (2010).

David Pozen, Deep Secrecy, 62 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 257 (2010).

Steven Aftergood, Reducing Government Secrecy--Finding What Works, 27 YALE LAW & POLICY REVIEW 399 (2009).

Helen Gunnarsson, New Open Government Legislation, 97 ILLINOIS BAR JOURNAL 334 (2009).

Alexandra A.E. Shapiro & Nathan H. Seltzer, Litigating under the Classified Information Procedures Act, 45 No. 6 CRIMINAL LAW BULLETIN Art. 1 (Winter 2009).

Louis Fisher, Symposium: Examining Our Priorities: The Relationship Between National Security and other Fundamental Values: Preserving Constitutional Freedoms Preserving Constitutional Freedoms in Times of National Crisis, 33 VERMONT LAW REVIEW 627 (2009).

Davida H. Isaacs and Robert M. Farley, Privilege-Wise and Patent (and Trade Secret) Foolish?  How the Courts’ Misapplication of the Military and State Secrets Privilege Violates the Constitution and Endangers National Security, 24 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 785 (2009).

Kristian W. Murray, National Security Veiled in Secrecy: An Analysis of the State Secrets Privilege in National Security Agency Wiretapping Litigation, 199 MILITARY LAW REVIEW 1 (2009).

Paul M. Schwartz, Warrantless Wiretapping, FISA Reform, and the Lessons of Public Liberty--A Comment on Holmes' Jorde Lecture, 97 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 407 (2009).

Lucien J. Dhooge, The State Secrets Privilege and Corporate Complicity in Extraordinary Rendition, 37 THE GEORGIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW 469 (2009).

Adam K. Magid, The Negative Executive Privilege, 20 STANFORD LAW & POLICY REVIEW 561 (2009).

Sudha Setty, No More Secret Laws: How Transparency of Executive Branch Legal Policy Doesn't Let the Terrorists Win, 57 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW REVIEW 579 (2009).

Jason A. Crook, From the Civil War to the War on Terror: The Evolution and Application of the State Secrets Privilege, 72 ALBANY LAW REVIEW 57 (2009).

Michael Ray Harris, Standing in the Way of Judicial Review: Assertion of the Deliberative Process Privilege in APA Cases, 53 ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 349 (2009).

Sudha Setty, Litigating Secrets: Comparative Perspectives on the State Secrets Privilege, 75 BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW 201 (2009).

Mary-Rose Papandrea, Lapdogs, Watchdogs, And Scapegoats: The Press And National Security Information, 83 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 233 (2008).

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

Brian D. Eyink, Constitutional Secrecy: Aligning National Security Letter Nondisclosure Provisions with First Amendment Rights, 58 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 473 (2008).

Mark Fenster, Designing Transparency--The 9/11 Commission and Institutional Form, 65 WASHINGTON & LEE LAW REVIEW 1239 (2008).

Todd Garvey, A Constitutional Anomaly: Safeguarding Confidential National Security Information Within the Enigma That Is the American Vice Presidency, 17 WILLIAM & MARY BILL OF RIGHTS JOURNAL 565 (2008).

Heidi Kitrosser, Classified Information Leaks and Free Speech, 2008 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 881 (2008).

Shilpa Narayan, Proper Assertion of the Deliberative Process Privilege: The Agency Head Requirement, 77 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1183 (2008).

Derigan A. Silver, National Security and the Press--The Government's Ability To Prosecute Journalists for the Possession or Publication of National Security Information, 13 COMMUNICATION LAW & POLICY 447 (2008).

Louis Fisher, Congressional Access to National Security Information, 45 HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION 219 (2008).

William E. Lee, Deep Background: Journalists, Sources, and the Perils of Leaking, 57 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1453 (2008).

Heidi Kitrosser, Congressional Oversight of National Security Activities: Improving Information Funnels, 29 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 1049 (2008).

Martin E. Halstuk, When Secrecy Trumps Transparency: Why the Open Government Act of 2007 Falls Short, 16 COMMLAW CONSPECTUS: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS LAW & POLICY 427 (2008).

Jonathan M. Lamb, Comment, The Muted Rise of the Silent Witness Rule in National Security Litigation: The Eastern District of Virginia's Answer to the Fight Over Classified Information at Trial, 36 PEPPERDINE LAW REVIEW 213 (2008).

Gia B. Lee, The President's Secrets, 76 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 197 (2008).

Amanda Marie Swain, Trentadue v. Integrity Committee--An Attempt to Reign in the Expansion of the Freedom of Information Act's 5th Exemption, 61 OKLAHOMA LAW REVIEW 371 (2008).

Jaya Ramji-Nogales, A Global Approach To Secret Evidence: How Human Rights Law Can Reform Our Immigration System, 39 COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 287 (2008)

Louis Fisher, Extraordinary Rendition--The Price of Secrecy, 57 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1405 (2008).

Mark A. Chinen, Secrecy and Democratic Decisions, 27 QUINNIPIAC LAW REVIEW 1 (2009).

Victor Hansen, Extraordinary Renditions and the State Secrets Privilege: Keeping Focus on the Task at Hand, 33 THE NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & COMMERCIAL REGULATION 629 (2008).

Rebecca Porter, Federal ‘Sunshine’ Bill Would Bring Secret Court Documents to Light, 44 TRIAL 74 (2008).

Rhonda McMillion, Court Call, 94 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 63 (2008).

Eric Dannenmaier, Executive Exclusion And The Cloistering Of The Cheney Energy Task Force, 16 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 329 (2008).

D. A. Jeremy Telman, Our very Privileged Executive: Why the Judiciary can (and should) Fix the State Secrets Privilege, 80 TEMPLE LAW REVIEW 499 (2008).

Geoffrey R. Stone, Free Speech and National Security, 84 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 939 (2008).

Michael Avery, The Constitutionality Of Warrantless Electronic Surveillance Of Suspected Foreign Threats To The National Security Of The United States, 62 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 541 (2008).

Robert M. Chesney, State Secrets and the Limits of National Security Litigation, 75 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 1249 (2007).

Matthew W. Warnock, Stifling Gubernatorial Secrecy: Application of Executive Privilege to State Executive Officials, 35 CAPITAL UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 983 (2007).

Sherry M. Barnash, What We Owe the World are Thoughtful War-Crimes Trials that do Justice without Unduly Jeopardizing Innocent Lives by Compromising Vital Intelligence, 39 ST. MARY'S LAW JOURNAL 231 (2007).

Adam S. Davis, Note, The Power of Information--The Clash between the Public's Right to Know and the Government's Security Concerns in a Post-September 11th World, 33 WILLIAM MITCHELL LAW REVIEW 1741 (2007).

Kathleen Clark, Government Lawyers and Confidentiality Norms, 85 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1033 (2007).

Jared Perkins, The State Secrets Privilege and the Abdication of Oversight, 21 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF PUBLIC LAW 235 (2007).

Julie Mertus & Lisa Davis, Citizenship and Location in a World of Torture, 10 NEW YORK CITY LAW REVIEW 411 (2007).

Asa W. Markel, The Future of State Secrets in War Crimes Prosecutions, 16 MICHIGAN STATE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 411 (2007).

Carrie Newton Lyons, The State Secrets Privilege: Expanding its Scope through Government Misuse, 11 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW 99 (2007).

Neil Kinkopf, The State Secrets Problem: Can Congress Fix it? 80 TEMPLE LAW REVIEW 489 (2007).

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

Marjorie A. Shields, Invocation and Effect of State Secrets Privilege, 23 AMERICAN LAW REPORTS 6th 521 (2007).

Heidi Kitrosser, "Macro-Transparency" as Structural Directive--A Look at the NSA Surveillance Controversy, 91 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 1163 (2007).

Geoffrey Corn & Eric Talbot Jensen, The Political Balance Of Power Over The Military: Rethinking The Relationship Between The Armed Forces, The President, And Congress, 44 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 553 (2007)

Nathan Alexander Sales, Secrecy and National Security Investigations, 58 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 811 (2007).

Heidi Kitrosser, Secrecy and Separated Powers: Executive Privilege Revisited, 92 IOWA LAW REVIEW 489 (2007).

William J. Katt, Jr., The New Paper Chase: Public Access To Trade Agreement Negotiating Documents, 106 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 679 (2006).

Garrett Bruening, State Secrets and Environmental Law Litigation, 11 GREAT PLAINS NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL 166 (2006).

Ellen C. Yaroshefsky, The Slow Erosion Of The Adversary System: Article III Courts, Fisa, Cipa And Ethical Dilemmas, 5 CARDOZO PUBLIC LAW POLICY & ETHICS JOURNAL 203 (2006).

A. John Radsan, Second-Guessing the Spymasters with a Judicial Role in Espionage Deals, 91 IOWA LAW REVIEW 1259 (2006).

Martin E. Halstuk & Eric B. Easton, Of Secrets And Spies: Strengthening The Public's Right To Know About The CIA, 17 STANFORD LAW & POLICY REVIEW 353 (2006).

Adam M. Samaha, Government Secrets, Constitutional Law, and Platforms for Judicial Intervention, 53 UCLA LAW REVIEW. 909 (2006).

Sidney A. Shapiro & Rena I. Steinzor, The People's Agent--Executive Branch Secrecy and Accountability in an Age of Terrorism, 69 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 99 (2006).

Mark Fenster, The Opacity of Transparency, 91 IOWA LAW REVIEW 885 (2006).

Meredith Fuchs, Judging Secrets:  The Role Courts Should Play in Preventing Unnecessary Secrecy.  58 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 131 (2006).

Holly L. McPherson, Comment, Tenet v. Doe: Balancing National Security and Contracts to Spy, 28 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LAW REVIEW 201 (2005).

Michael N. Kennedy, Escaping the Fishbowl: A Proposal to Fortify the Deliberative Process Privilege, 99 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1769 (2005).

Jason Gratl & Andrew Irvine, National Security, State Secrecy and Public Accountability, 54 UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK LAW JOURNAL 251 (2005).

William G. Weaver & Robert Pallitto, State Secrets and Executive Power, 120 POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY 85 (2005).

Jeremy Patrick-Justice, Section 38 and the Open Courts Principle, 54 UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK LAW JOURNAL 218 (2005).

Christina E. Wells, ‘National Security’ Information and the Freedom of Information Act, 56 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 1195 (2004).

Kenneth W. Graham, Jr., Government Privilege: A Cautionary Tale for Codifiers, 38 LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW 861 (2004).

Dean Wilson et al., Media, Secrecy and Guantanamo Bay, 16 CURRENT ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE 79 (2004).

Matthew Silverman, National Security and the First Amendment--A Judicial Role in Maximizing Public Access To Information, 78 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 1101 (2003).

Alasdair Roberts, Entangling Alliances: NATO's Security of Information Policy and the Entrenchment of State Secrecy, 36 CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 329 (2003).

Patrice McDermott, Withhold and Control: Information in the Bush Administration, 12 KANSAS JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 671 (2003).

Roberto Iraola, Congressional Oversight, Executive Privilege, and Requests for Information Relating to Federal Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions, 87 IOWA LAW REVIEW 1559 (2002).

Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege Revived? Secrecy And Conflict During The Bush Presidency, 52 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 403 (2002).

L. Darnell Weeden, The Rise And Fall Of Enron: A White House Nondisclosure Entangles Separation Of Powers And Contempt Of Congress, 34 MCGEORGE LAW REVIEW 65 (2002).

Jonathan Turley, Paradise Lost: The Clinton Administration and the Erosion of Executive Privilege, 60 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW 205 (2001).

Mark J. Rozell, Restoring Balance to the Debate over Executive Privilege: A Response to Berger, 8 WM. & MARY BILL OF RIGHTS JOURNAL 541 (2000).

Matthew N. Kaplan, Who Will Guard the Guardians? Independent Counsel, State Secrets, and Judicial Review, 18 NOVA LAW REVIEW 1787 (1993).

Richard P. Salgado, Government Secrets, Fair Trials, and the Classified Information Procedures Act, 98 YALE LAW JOURNAL 427 (1988). 

Mauro Cappelletti & C.J. Golden, Jr., Comment, Crown Privilege and Executive Privilege: A British Response to an American Controversy, 8 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 836 (1973).

Developments in the Law- The National Security Interest and Civil Liberties, 85 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1130 (1972).

Comment, Spying and Slandering: An Absolute Privilege for the CIA Agent?, 67 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 752 (1967).

Law Review Student Notes

Michael Q. Cannon, MOHAMED V. JEPPESEN DATAPLAN, INC.: THE NINTH CIRCUIT SENDS THE TOTTEN BAR FLYING AWAY ON THE JEPPESEN AIRPLANE, 2012 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 407

Jessica Slattery Karich’s Case Comment: Restoring Balance To Checks And Balances: Checking The Executive's Power Under The State Secrets Doctrine, Mohamed V. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. 114 W. Va. L. Rev. 759 (2012)  

Benjamin Bernstein, Note, Over Before It Even Began: Mohammed v. Jeppesen Dataplan and the Use of the State Secrets Privilege in Extraordinary Rendition Cases, 34 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 1400 (2011). 

 D.A. Jeremy Telman, Intolerable Abuses: Rendition for Torture and the State Secrets Privilege, 63 ALA. L. REV. (2011) 

 Andrew Kingman, Note, State Secrets Are a Privilege, Not a Right: Can Victims of Extraordinary Rendition and Torture Overcome the State Secrets Privilege Using the Alien Tort Statute?, 16 SUFFOLK JOURNAL OF TRIAL AND APPELLATE ADVOCACY 118 (2011).

Michael Epstein, Note, The Curious Case of Anwar al-Aulaqi: Is Targeting a Terrorist for Execution by Drone Strike a Due Process Violation When the Terrorist is a United States Citizen?, 2011.

Elizabeth Rose Blazey, Controlling Government Secrecy: A Judicial Solution to the Internal and External Conflicts Surrounding the State Secrets Privilege, 58 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 1187 (2010)

Michael P. Jensen, Note, Torture and Public Policy:  Mohamed V. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. Allows “Extraordinary Rendition” Victims to Litigate Around State Secrets Doctrine, 2010 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 117.

Beth George, Note, An Administrative Law Approach to Reforming the State Secrets Privilege, 84 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1691 (2009).

Sean Michael Ward, Note, The State Secrets Protection Act:  Statutory Reform of the State Secrets Privilege, 7 THE GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 681 (2009).

Rita Glasionov, Note, In Furtherance of Transparency and Litigants' Rights: Reforming the State Secrets Privilege, 77 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 458 (2009).

Doug Meier, Note, Changing with the Times: How the Government Must Adapt to Prevent the Publication of Its Secrets, 28 THE REVIEW OF LITIGATION 203 (2008).

Margaret Ziegler, Note, Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: The Government's Increased use of the State Secrets Privilege to Conceal Wrongdoing, 23 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 691 (2008).

Holly Wells, Note, The State Secrets Privilege: Overuse Causing Unintended Consequences, 50 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 967 (2008).

Michael H. Page, Note, Judging without the Facts: A Schematic for Reviewing State Secrets Privilege Claims, 93 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 1243 (2008).

Daniel J. Huyck, Note, Fade to Black: El-Masri v. United States Validates the use of the State Secrets Privilege to Dismiss "Extraordinary Rendition" Claims, 17 MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 435 (2008).

Stephanie A. Fichera, Note, Compromising Liberty for National Security: The Need to Rein in the Executive's use of the State-Secrets Privilege in Post-September 11 Litigation, 62 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 625 (2008).

Mechanisms of Secrecy, Note, 121 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1556 (2008).

Jonathan K. Geldert, Note, Presidential Advisors And Their Most Unpresidential Activities: Why Executive Privilege Cannot Shield White House Information In The U.S. Attorney Firings Controversy, 49 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 823 (2008).

Michael C. Miller, Note, Standing in the Wake of the Terrorist Surveillance Program: A Modified Standard for Challenges to Secret Government Surveillance, 60 RUTGERS LAW REVIEW 1039 (2008).

Michael H. Page, Note, Judging without the Facts: A Schematic for Reviewing State Secrets Privilege Claims, 93 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 1243 (2008).

Luppe B. Luppen, Note, Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In: Executive Power and the Novel Reclassification Authority, 64 WASHINGTON & LEE LAW REVIEW 1115 (2007).

Joe Bant, Comment, United States v. Rosen: Pushing the Free Press Onto a Slippery Slope?, 55 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW REVIEW 1027 (2007).

Christopher D. Yamaoka, Note, The State Secrets Privilege: What's Wrong with it, how it Got that Way, and how the Courts can Fix it, 35 HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY 139 (2007).

Emily Simpson, Note, "Nothing is so Oppressive as a Secret":' Recommendations for Reforming the State Secrets Privilege, 80 TEMPLE LAW REVIEW 561 (2007).

Anjetta McQueen, Note, Security Blanket: The State Secrets Privilege Threat to Public Employment Rights, 22 THE LABOR LAWYER 329 (2007).

Erin M. Stilp, Note, The Military and State-Secrets Privilege: The Quietly Expanding Power, 55 CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 831 (2006).

Anthony Rapa, Note, When Secrecy Threatens Security: Edmonds v. Department of Justice and a Proposal to Reform the State Secrets Privilege, 37 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 233 (2006).

Brian M. Tomney, Note, Contemplating the Use of Classified or State Secret Information Obtained Ex Parte on the Merits in Civil Litigation: Bl(a)ck Tea Society v. City of Boston, 57 MAINE LAW REVIEW 641 (2005).

David E. Pozen, Note, The Mosaic Theory, National Security, and the Freedom of Information Act, 115 YALE LAW JOURNAL 628 (2005).

William Bradley Russell, Jr., Note, A Convenient Blanket Of Secrecy: The Oft-Cited But Nonexistent Housekeeping Privilege, 14 WILLIAM & MARY BILL OF RIGHTS JOURNAL 745 (2005).

Andrew R. Sommer, Note, The State Secrets Privilege in Prepublication Review: Proposing a Solution to Avoid a Seemingly Inevitable Tragedy, 12 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 211 (2003).

Laura A. White, The Need for Governmental Secrecy--Why the U.S. Government must be Able to Withhold Information in the Interest of National Security, 43 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1071 (2003).

Marcy Lynn Karin, Note, Out Of Sight, But Not Out Of Mind: How Executive Order 13,233 Expands Executive Privilege While Simultaneously Preventing Access To Presidential Records, 55 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 529 (2002).

Jeffrey P. Carlin, Note, Walker v. Cheney: Politics, Posturing, and Executive Privilege, 76 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 235 (2002).

Daniel C. Gardner, Note, The Big Bad State Secrets Privilege: Why McDonnell Douglas' Superior Knowledge Claim was Doomed and how to Minimize the Effects of the Privilege without Endangering National Security, 10 FEDERAL CIRCUIT BAR JOURNAL 549 (2001).

Ken Taymor, Note, The Military and State Secrets Privilege, 91 YALE LAW JOURNAL 570 (1982).

Miscellaneous

Mike German and Jay Stanley, Drastic Measures Required: Congress Needs to Overhaul U.S. Secrecy Laws and Increase Oversight of the Secret Security Establishment, American Civil Liberties Union, 2011.

Bryan Rahija, State Secrets Privilege: Five Questions with Professor Laura Donohue, The Project on Government Oversight (POGO), May 5, 2011.

Dr. Louis Fisher's Congressional Testimony and Documents

Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy State Secrets Privilege Page

American Bar Association Resolution on the State Secrets Privilege, Adopted August 13, 2007