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Who's Watching the Spies by Hans Born & Lock Johnson & Ian Leigh
Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability
Experts from around the globe look at protecting secrets while maintaining libertiesGiven recent experiences with terrorism, clearly even the most democratic societies have a legitimate need for secrecy. This secrecy has often been abused, however, and strong oversight systems are necessary to protect individual liberties. The assembled authors, each well known in the international community of national security scholars, bring together in one volume the rich experience of three decades of experimentation in intelligence accountability. Using a structured approach, they examine the strengths and weaknesses of the intelligence systems of Argentina, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. While these democracies have experimented with methods to make intelligence more accountable, they all have different political systems, political cultures, legal systems, and democratic traditions, thereby presenting an exceptional opportunity to examine how intelligence accountability evolves under disparate circumstances. The contributors draw together the best practices into a framework for successful approaches to intelligence accountability, including a prescription for a model law. |
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| Author(s) : Ian Leigh | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 1574888978 | ISBN-13 : 9781574888973 |
| RRP : £15.00 | Best available price : £10.60 / $13.95 |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 04/08/2005
Publisher : Potomac Books Inc
Page Length : 272mm
Page Size : 230mm