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Challenging the Secret Government

Author : Kathryn S. Olmsted
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786370X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Secret Government written by Kathryn S. Olmsted and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country's best investigative journalists and members of Congress quickly mobilized to probe a scandal that seemed certain to rock the foundations of this secret government. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the CIA had plotted to kill foreign leaders and that the FBI had harassed civil rights and student groups. Some called the scandal 'son of Watergate.' Many observers predicted that the investigations would lead to far-reaching changes in the intelligence agencies. Yet, as Kathryn Olmsted shows, neither the media nor Congress pressed for reforms. For all of its post-Watergate zeal, the press hesitated to break its long tradition of deference in national security coverage. Congress, too, was unwilling to challenge the executive branch in national security matters. Reports of the demise of the executive branch were greatly exaggerated, and the result of the 'year of intelligence' was a return to the status quo. American History/Journalism

Challenging the Secret Government

Author : Kathryn Signe Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Secret Government written by Kathryn Signe Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Government

Author : Bill D. Moyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Government written by Bill D. Moyers and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adapted from two programs of the Public Broadcasting Service, mainly from one of this same title broadcast on November 4, 1987 ... excerpts from Mr. Moyers's 'Essay on Watergate, ' originally broadcast October 21, 1973"--Page [vii]Includes index. Bibliography: p. [123]-125.

Wedge

Author : Mark Riebling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603851
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Wedge written by Mark Riebling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophetic when first published, even more relevant now, Wedge is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself. Based on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, Wedge reveals and re-creates -- battle by battle, bungle by bungle -- the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA -- and the rival personalities of cops and spies -- have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths. A grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, Wedge is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda -- Wedge shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence. Gripping and authoritative -- and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001 -- Wedge is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.

The Secret World Government Or the Hidden Hand

Author : Count Cherep-Spiridovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258006945
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Secret World Government Or the Hidden Hand written by Count Cherep-Spiridovich and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Government

Author : Bill D. Moyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Government written by Bill D. Moyers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the threats to constitutional government and looks at events that led to the Iran-contra affair.

Being Watched

Author : Jeffrey L. Vagle
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479841536
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Being Watched written by Jeffrey L. Vagle and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history of the Supreme Court decision that set the legal precedent for citizen challenges to government surveillance The tension between national security and civil rights is nowhere more evident than in the fight over government domestic surveillance. Governments must be able to collect information at some level, but surveillance has become increasingly controversial due to its more egregious uses and abuses, which tips the balance toward increased—and sometimes total—government control.This struggle came to forefront in the early 1970s, after decades of abuses by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies were revealed to the public, prompting both legislation and lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of these programs. As the plaintiffs in these lawsuits discovered, however, bringing legal challenges to secret government surveillance programs in federal courts faces a formidable obstacle in the principle that limits court access only to those who have standing, meaning they can show actual or imminent injury—a significant problem when evidence of the challenged program is secret. In Being Watched, Jeffrey L. Vagle draws on the legacy of the 1972 Supreme Court decision in Laird v. Tatum to tell the fascinating and disturbing story of jurisprudence related to the issue of standing in citizen challenges to government surveillance in the United States. It examines the facts of surveillance cases and the reasoning of the courts who heard them, and considers whether the obstacle of standing to surveillance challenges in U.S. courts can ever be overcome. Vagle journeys through a history of military domestic surveillance, tensions between the three branches of government, the powers of the presidency in times of war, and the power of individual citizens in the ongoing quest for the elusive freedom-organization balance. The history brings to light the remarkable number of similarities among the contexts in which government surveillance thrives, including overzealous military and intelligent agencies and an ideologically fractured Supreme Court. More broadly, Being Watched looks at our democratic system of government and its ability to remain healthy and intact during times of national crisis. A compelling history of a Supreme Court decision and its far-reaching consequences, Being Watched is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the legal justifications for—and objections to—surveillance.

Secret Government

Author : Brian Kogelmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108833268
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Secret Government written by Brian Kogelmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of transparency in government.

Test of Loyalty: Daniel Ellsberg and the Rituals of Secret Government

Author : Peter Schrag
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671217877
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Test of Loyalty: Daniel Ellsberg and the Rituals of Secret Government written by Peter Schrag and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1974 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Top Secret Government Archives

Author : Nick Redfern
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477781544
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Top Secret Government Archives written by Nick Redfern and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling volume tackles the topic of the classified files that government agencies choose not to release under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. Many of these documents supposedly cannot be found or are Top Secret files that the agencies admit exist but that they have decided to keep the public from seeing. The reason for the "missing" files is to stop the truth about some of the world's greatest conspiracies from ever becoming known, such as the Roswell UFO crash, the JFK assassination, Project MKUltra (the CIA's mind control operation), and a secret U.S. base on the moon.

The Myths of National Security

Author : Arthur M. Cox
Publisher : Boston : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Myths of National Security written by Arthur M. Cox and published by Boston : Beacon Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Corporatism

Author : Jeffrey Grupp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Corporatism written by Jeffrey Grupp and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadow Government

Author : Tom Engelhardt
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 160846427X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Government written by Tom Engelhardt and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book about secrets and surveillance . . . [from] one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing” (Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark). In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn’t fully control. Almost half a century later, everything about that “invisible government” has grown vastly larger, more disturbing, and far more visible. In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn’t have recognized. “Tom Engelhardt is an iconoclast . . . Again and again, he goes to the heart of the matter, drawing on his awesomely wide reading, his knowledge of history, and his acute political radar system.” —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Mirror at Midnight “This collection, focused on the new Orwellianism, is some of the finest writing and finest public service gathered together in book form for your portable pleasure and outrage.” —Rebecca Solnit of Call Them by Their True Names “Tom Engelhardt’s writing on the new forms of government surveillance is crucial because he has spent a lifetime studying the rise of the national security state.” —Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan

Nation of Secrets

Author : Ted Gup
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307472914
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Nation of Secrets written by Ted Gup and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning journalist Ted Gup exposes how and why our most important institutions increasingly keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve.Drawing on his decades as an investigative reporter, Ted Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security, patriotism, and privacy--in whose name secrecy is so often invoked. He explores the blatant exploitation of privacy and confidentiality in academia, business, and the courts, and concludes that in case after case, these principles have been twisted to allow the emergence of a shadow system of justice, unaccountable to the public. Nation of Secrets not only sounds the alarm to warn against an unethical way of life, but calls for the preservation of our democracy as we know it.

Secret World Government

Author : Imogen Pilkington
Publisher : Bookademy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret World Government written by Imogen Pilkington and published by Bookademy. This book was released on with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the shadows of global governance with “Secret World Government - Who Holds the Real Power?” This riveting exploration delves into the intricate webs of influence woven by elite families, multinational organizations, intelligence agencies, and more. From clandestine meetings to covert operations, this book uncovers the hidden forces shaping our world, leaving readers questioning the true nature of power and democracy. Prepare to be captivated by revelations and theories that challenge conventional understanding of global politics.

Governing America

Author : Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150737
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Governing America written by Julian E. Zelizer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the study of American political history.

The Transparency Fix

Author : Mark Fenster
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503602672
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Transparency Fix written by Mark Fenster and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the government too secret or not secret enough? Why is there simultaneously too much government secrecy and a seemingly endless procession of government leaks? The Transparency Fix asserts that we incorrectly assume that government information can be controlled. The same impulse that drives transparency movements also drives secrecy advocates. They all hold the mistaken belief that government information can either be released or kept secure on command. The Transparency Fix argues for a reformation in our assumptions about secrecy and transparency. The world did not end because Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden released classified information. But nor was there a significant political change. "Transparency" has become a buzzword, while secrecy is anathema. Using a variety of real-life examples to examine how government information actually flows, Mark Fenster describes how the legal regime's tenuous control over state information belies both the promise and peril of transparency. He challenges us to confront the implausibility of controlling government information and shows us how the contemporary obsession surrounding transparency and secrecy cannot radically change a state that is defined by so much more than information.