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Given the dangers in the world¿-from terrorism to pandemics¿-nations must have effective spy services; yet, to prevent the misuse of secret power, democracies must also ensure that their spies are well supervised. Loch Johnson's Spy Watching focuses on the obstacles encountered by America as it pursues more effective intelligence accountability.
Sommario
- Preface
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Democracy and Intelligence
- PART I: THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CHALLENGE
- Chapter One: Tracking an Elusive Behemoth
- Chapter Two: Intelligence Exceptionalism
- PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
- Chapter Three: Democracy Comes to the Secret Agencies
- Chapter Four: The Experiment in Intelligence Accountability Begins
- Chapter Five: Spy Watching in an Age of Terror
- PART III: THE PATTERNS OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
- Chapter Six: A Shock Theory of Intelligence Accountability
- Chapter Seven: The Media and Intelligence Accountability
- Chapter Eight: Ostriches, Cheerleaders, Lemon-Suckers, and Guardians
- PART IV: THE PRACTICE OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
- Chapter Nine: In the Trenches: Collection-and-Analysis and Covert Action
- Chapter Ten: In the Wilderness: Coping with Counterintelligence
- PART V: THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
- Chapter Eleven: Intelligence Accountability and the Nation's Spy Chiefs
- Chapter Twelve: The Ongoing Quest for Liberty and Security
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Codenames
- Appendix A: The U.S. Intelligence Community, 2016
- Appendix B: U.S. Intelligence Leadership, 1947-2016
- Appendix C: The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980
- Bibliography
Info autore
Loch K. Johnson is one of America's leading experts on the nation's intelligence organizations. He is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and served as staff director of the Senate Committee on Intelligence, as well as assistant to the chairman of the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence. Johnson is the author of
America's Secret Power and
The Threat on the Horizon, both published by Oxford University Press.
Riassunto
Given the dangers in the world---from terrorism to pandemics---nations must have effective spy services; yet, to prevent the misuse of secret power, democracies must also ensure that their spies are well supervised. Loch Johnson's Spy Watching focuses on the obstacles encountered by America as it pursues more effective intelligence accountability.
Testo aggiuntivo
This is a learned, mighty and magisterial book.
