Is full transparency good for democracy?
- Written by Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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With the approval of President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives released the so-called “Nunes memo” on Feb. 2.
In it, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes describes alleged abuses of surveillance practices by the FBI in the...