Links to audio from recent State Secrets Privilege event at American University (sponsored by the Collaboration on Government Secrecy)

The State of the State Secrets Privilege – Wednesday, November 18, 2009:

• Welcome and Introduction / Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (00:43:50)
• Panel One: Background of the Privilege — a foundation discussion of the state secrets privilege’s origin, its development, and its current status in the courts (01:35:56)
• Panel Two: Obama Administration Policy and Practice — a critical examination of the Obama Administration’s emerging positions on the privilege and how they differ from positions advanced in litigation during the Bush Administration (01:19:42)
• Luncheon (00:48:21)
• Panel Three: Legislative Perspective — an up-to-date view from Capitol Hill of the prospects for state secrets privilege reform by Congress (01:10:48)
• Panel Four: Idealized View of the Privilege — a wide-ranging assessment of what, all things considered, the nature and scope of the privilege ought to be (01:23:20)