When Should State Secrets Stay Secret? - Accountability, Democratic Governance, and Intelligence

This book examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development and how these mechanisms bolster an internal security system, increasing the secrecy of the intelligence enterprise.

List of contents

1. An analytical approach: intelligence, accountability and oversight; 2. Organizing secrecy: the CIA and institutional control; 3. External accountability: the development of congressional oversight; 4. Congress and oppositional oversight; 5. An independent judiciary? The domestic implications of intelligence and the politics of secret oversight; 6. Conclusions.

About the author

Genevieve Lester is a research fellow and lecturer at the University of California, Washington Center, and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. She was a visiting assistant professor and coordinator of intelligence in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC, and a senior fellow at the Center for Security Studies also at Georgetown. Her areas of interest are international relations and security with an emphasis on intelligence and accountability.

Summary

This book examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development by focusing on how American oversight mechanisms combine to bolster an internal security system and thus increase the secrecy of the intelligence enterprise. It uniquely examines how these oversight mechanisms have developed within all three branches of government.

Product details

• Authors: Genevieve Lester, Lester Genevieve
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2015
• EAN: 9781107616530
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61653-0
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, comparative law, Human rights, civil rights, Freedom of information law, Responsibility of states & other entities