Yes, because advocates are right to maintain that transparency is still viewed as a secondary value, notwithstanding rhetoric suggesting otherwise, not just in spite of but because of FOIA; and yes, because a constitutional right would at least extend further into the federal and state and local governments than FOIA; but a very qualified yes, because I’m not sure it matters.

David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The…, loc. 267