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Lauren Harper
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Lauren is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, a position established to honor and continue the legendary whistleblower’s fight for secrecy reform. She joins FPF after a decade fighting excessive government secrecy with Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, the National Security Archive. There she served as public policy director and helped historians, journalists, and the public win the declassification of historically significant government documents. Lauren holds a master’s in public policy and a master’s in Middle Eastern studies, both from the University of Chicago.
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Politicizing declassification has dire consequences
It will corrupt historical accounts of this administration — and is a recipe for disaster.
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Recent leaks reinforce why journalist-source confidentiality needs protecting
Virtually every time the government has cracked down on leaks claiming some kind of threat to the homeland, the real threat has been to its own reputation.