Freedom of Information Act versus the FBI / Athan G. Theoharis -- CIA and secrecy / James X. Dempsey -- "Not so anonymous": parting the veil of secrecy about the National Security Agency / Matthew M. Aid -- "National security" and Freedom of Information : the John Lennon FBI Files / Jon Wiener -- Playing the information game : how it took thirteen years and two lawsuits to get J. Edgar Hoover's secret Supreme Court sex files / Alexander Charns and Paul M. Green -- Endless saga of the Nixon tapes / Joan Hoff -- War over secrecy : democracy's most important low-intensity conflict / Scott Armstrong -- We can't yet read our own mail : access to the records of the Department of State / Page Putnam Miller -- John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board / Anna Kasten Nelson.