Showing posts with label reconciling irreconcilable values of secrecy and accountability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reconciling irreconcilable values of secrecy and accountability. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

A Clear Danger to Free Speech; New York Times, 1/4/11

Geoffrey R. Stone, New York Times; A Clear Danger to Free Speech:

"If we grant the government too much power to punish those who disseminate information, then we risk too great a sacrifice of public deliberation; if we grant the government too little power to control confidentiality at the source, then we risk too great a sacrifice of secrecy. The answer is thus to reconcile the irreconcilable values of secrecy and accountability by guaranteeing both a strong authority of the government to prohibit leaks and an expansive right of others to disseminate information to the public."