Daniel J. Metcalfe, who in 1981 co-founded the Department of Justice’s Office of Information and Privacy (now Office of Information Policy), has authored a 792-page book entitled Inside Justice: Secrecy at Work. Available this October, the book is described by its publisher as “at once a candid, highly readable memoir infused with sly humor, a deeply researched and argued call to action, and an unprecedented history of government secrecy that only one person could provide.”

Mr. Metcalfe left DOJ/OIP in 2007 after serving as its co-director for 24 years and as its sole director after Richard Huff retired in 2005. He shortly thereafter joined American University’s Washington College of Law and ran the school's Collaboration on Government Secrecy, which was an educational project devoted to openness in government.