How Much Does the Public Really Need to Know? A Reporter's Perspective on the Post-9/11 Age

Eric Lichtblau
Washington Correspondent
The New York Times
Author, Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice

2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8
The Pyle Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
702 Langdon Street
Book signing to follow

Eric Lichtblau joined The New York Times in September 2002 as Washington correspondent covering the Justice Department in the Washington bureau. Previously, Mr. Lichtblau was at The Los Angeles Times for 15 years. 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 that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty. Mr. Lichtblau was born in Syracuse, and graduated from Cornell University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and political science.