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I see nothing to disagree with there. Schanberg knows what he's talking about more than probably 99% of people who have written on the subject recently, and he's not even saying anything controversial; in fact it all seems obvious to me.
What is interesting is how this particular viewpoint came to be marginal; one could argue that increased calls for secrecy and concealment are naturally to be expected during war time, and things will return to "normal" when the country returns to peace. But I think that's too rosy a view; there are more fundamental problems, and as he points out these problems (eg press "compliance") had a genesis long before 9/11.
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