Democracy in the dark : the seduction of government secrecy

Democracy in the dark : the seduction of government secrecy / Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.

"From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to NSA's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Fritz Schwarz, who was chief counsel to the U.S. Church Committee on I...

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Main Author: Schwarz, Frederick A. O. (Frederick August Otto), 1935- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : New Press, The, 2015.
Subjects:
Freedom of information > United States.
Official secrets > United States.
Intelligence service > Law and legislation > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Executive Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Intelligence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > International Security.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Freedom of information
Intelligence service > Law and legislation
Official secrets
Regierung
Informationspolitik
Geheimdienst
Geheimhaltung
United States
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • From the Garden of Eden to America's founding
  • More openness to more secrecy : America from the founding to the secrecy era
  • Appropriate secrecy and its limits : 9/11, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and where to drop the first atomic bomb
  • Building power through secrecy : J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Cheney
  • Six secrecy stories : from slavery to science
  • Cultures of secrecy
  • The seduction of secrecy
  • Leaks, investigative journalism, and nonprofit watchdogs
  • Congress I : investigation and oversight
  • Congress II : the Freedom of Information Act
  • The courts and secrecy
  • Author's note: Personal encounters with secrecy.

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