How Much Does the Public Really Need to Know?

Eric Lichtblau, Washington correspondent for The New York Times and author of "Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice." Lichtblau joined The New York Times in September 2002 as Washington correspondent covering the Justice department in the Washington bureau. In 2006, Mr. Lichtblau and his colleague James Risen won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping.