Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence ActivitiesPublisher:
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Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Intelligence Activities: Internal Revenue Service, October 2, 1975
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Intelligence Activities--Senate Resolution 21
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence ActivitiesPublisher:
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Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Democracy in the Dark
Author: Frederick A. O. SchwarzPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 162097052X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post). From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide; the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA’s thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States—uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran–Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz’s Unchecked and Unbalanced, cowritten with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch—a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy. “[An] important new book . . . Carefully researched, engagingly written stories of government secrecy gone amiss.” —The American Prospect
Plausible Legality
Author: Rebecca SandersPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190870575
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In many ways, the United States' post-9/11 engagement with legal rules is puzzling. Officials in both the Bush and Obama administrations authorized numerous contentious counterterrorism policies that sparked global outrage, yet they have repeatedly insisted that their actions were lawful and legitimate. In Plausible Legality, Rebecca Sanders examines how the US government interpreted, reinterpreted, and manipulated legal norms and what these justificatory practices imply about the capacity of law to constrain state violence. Through case studies on the use of torture, detention, targeted killing, and surveillance, Sanders provides a detailed analysis of how policymakers use law to achieve their political objectives and situates these patterns within a broader theoretical understanding of how law operates in contemporary politics. She argues that legal culture--defined as collectively shared understandings of legal legitimacy and appropriate forms of legal practice in particular contexts--plays a significant role in shaping state practice. In the global war on terror, a national security culture of legal rationalization encouraged authorities to seek legal cover-to construct the plausible legality of human rights violations-in order to ensure impunity for wrongdoing. Looking forward, law remains vulnerable to evasion and revision. As Sanders shows, despite the efforts of human rights advocates to encourage deeper compliance, the normalization of post-9/11 policy has created space for future administrations to further erode legal norms.
Congress and Foreign Policy, 1975
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International RelationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Internal Revenue Service's Controls Over the Use of Confidential Informants
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
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Category : Informers
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Surveillance Technology, 1976
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional RightsPublisher:
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Category : Eavesdropping
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Oversight of the Internal Revenue ServicePublisher:
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Category : Administrative remedies
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Congress and Foreign Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International RelationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description