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8:15 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction -‐‑-‐‑ Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration
on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law
9:15 a.m. Keynote Speech -‐‑-‐‑ Beth Simone Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer and
Director, White House Open Government Initiative
10:00 a.m. Panel One: Freedom of Information Act Policy -‐‑-‐‑ a review of governmentwide
implementation of the Holder FOIA Memorandum.
Lucy A. Dalglish, Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press; Thomas J. Fitton, President, Judicial Watch; Richard L. Huff, Director,
American Society of Access Professionals, and former Director, Office of
Information and Privacy, Department of Justice; David Sobel, Senior Counsel
and Director, FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government Project, Electronic
Frontier Foundation; and Thomas M. Susman, Director of Governmental Affairs,
American Bar Association
11:30 a.m. Panel Two: The New Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) -‐‑-‐‑
an inside look at OGIS’s start-‐‑up operations and its plans for 2010.
Rick Blum, Coordinator, Sunshine in Government Initiative; Lydia Kay
Griggsby, Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy;
Patrice McDermott, Director, OpenTheGovernment.org.; Miriam McIntire
Nisbet, Director, Office of Government Information Services, National Archives
and Records Administration
1:00 p.m. Luncheon Presentation -‐‑-‐‑ Michael Isikoff, Investigative Correspondent, Newsweek,
and contributor to MSNBC
2:00 p.m. Panel Three: The New Executive Order on National Security -‐‑-‐‑ a discussion
of new Exec. Order No. 13,526, with focus on both classification and
declassification.
Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive; Gina Genton,
Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Policy, Office of the Director of
National Intelligence; William H. Leary, Senior Director, National Security
Council; J. William Leonard, Leonard Consulting Group; and Steven Aftergood,
Executive Director, Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American
Scientists (moderator)
3:30 p.m. Panel Four: The Open Government Directive -‐‑-‐‑ an analysis of this long-‐‑awaited
keystone of Obama Administration transparency policy, with attention to the
breadth of its related technology initiatives.
Clint Hendler, Staff Writer, Columbia Journalism Review; Alexander T. Hunt, Chief,
Information Policy Branch, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office
of Management and Budget; Sean Moulton, Director, Federal Information Policy,
OMB Watch; Burt Wides, former Senior Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee,
Chief Counsel to House Judiciary Committee, and Special Counsel to President
Jimmy Carter; and Gary D. Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch
(moderator)
5:00 p.m. Reception