Download or read book Lords of Secrecy written by Scott Horton and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country's vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political consciousness has drifted. In the last decade, America has gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, while pursuing a new kind of warfare in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Pakistan. National security issues have increasingly faded from the political agenda, due in part to the growth of government secrecy. In lucid and chilling detail, journalist and lawyer Scott Horton shows how secrecy has changed the way America functions. Executive decisions about war and peace are increasingly made by autonomous, self-directing, and unaccountable national security elites. Secrecy is justified as part of a bargain under which the state promises to keep the people safe from its enemies, but in fact allows excesses, mistakes, and crimes to go unchecked. Bureaucracies use secrets to conceal their mistakes and advance their power in government, invariable at the expense of the rights of the people. Never before have the American people had so little information concerning the wars waged in their name, nor has Congress exercised so little oversight over the war effort. American democracy is in deep trouble. Lords of Secrecy explores the most important national security debates of our time, including the legal and moral issues surrounding the turn to private security contractors, the sweeping surveillance methods of intelligence agencies, and the use of robotic weapons such as drones. Horton looks at the legal edifice upon which these decisions are based and discusses approaches to rolling back the flood of secrets that is engulfing America today. Whistleblowers, but also Congress, the public, and the media, play a vital role in this process. As the ancient Greeks recognized, too much secrecy changes the nature of the state itself, transforming a democracy into something else. Horton reminds us that dealing with the country's national security concerns is both a right and a responsibility of a free citizenry, something that has always sat at the heart of any democracy that earns the name.
Download or read book Lords of Secrecy written by Scott Horton and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horton argues that the rise of the National Security State is stabbing at the heart of American democracy.
Download or read book Report of the Lords Committee of Secrecy written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Lords 12 May 1797 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Lords Committee of Secrecy Ordered to be printed 28th April 1797 Examination into the funds and liabilities of the Bank of England Appendix written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Lords in Ireland written by Ireland. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report from the Committee of secrecy of the House of Lords appointed to take into consideration the matters of the sealed up treasonable papers received from the Commons the 4th of May 1797 written by IRELAND [Ireland -1922]. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Lords in Ireland as Reported by the Right Honourable John Earl of Clare Lord High Chancellor August 30 1798 written by Ireland. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Lords of Ireland Appointed to Take Into Consideration the Matters of the Sealed up Treasonable Papers Received from the Commons on the 23d Day of July Last with All the Appendices by the Right Hon John Earl of Clare Lord Chancellor of Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Espionage and Secrecy Routledge Revivals written by Rosamund Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prize-winning book, first published in 1991, provides a detailed legal account of the development of the UK Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989. In particular, the Espionage section (s.1) of this criminal law is analysed carefully, illustrated by leading cases of UK spies prosecuted under this section, particularly during the 1980’s — including MI5 officer Michael Bettaney and Geoffrey Prime who worked at GCHQ. The author also examines problems of evidence in espionage prosecutions, and the consent of the Attorney-General in cases under the Official Secrets Acts. This book remains the definitive treatise on the UK Official Secrets Acts, especially concerning the espionage provisions.
Download or read book Report from the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons in Ireland as reported by the R H Lord Vct Castlereagh August 21 1798 written by Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Secrecy and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journals of the House of Lords written by Great Britain House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Lords Committee of Secrecy written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Secret Committee to Enquire into the State of the Bank of England and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debates on the Report of the Committee of Secrecy in the House of Commons on the 16th and 17th of May and in the House of Lords on the 17th and 19th and 22d of the same month 1794 Also a list of the Minority in both Houses of Parliament who voted against the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act etc written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bond of Secrecy written by Saint John Hunt and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father’s last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In Howard Hunt's near-death confession to his son St. John, he revealed that key figures in the CIA were responsible for the plot to assassinate JFK in Dallas, and that Hunt himself was approached by the plotters, among whom included the CIA’s David Atlee Phillips, Cord Meyer, Jr., and William Harvey, as well as future Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. An incredible true story told from an inside, authoritative source, this is also a personal account of a uniquely dysfunctional American family caught up in two of the biggest political scandals of the 20th century.
Download or read book Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error During the Sessions 1831 1846 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
