Democracy in the dark : the seduction of government secrecy

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Label

Democracy in the dark : the seduction of government secrecy

Title remainder

the seduction of government secrecy

Statement of responsibility

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr

Creator

• Schwarz, Frederick A. O., (Frederick August Otto), 1935-

Author

• Schwarz, Frederick A. O., (Frederick August Otto), 1935-

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | Executive Branch
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Intelligence
• Freedom of information -- United States
• Informationspolitik
• Freedom of information
• Official secrets
• Intelligence service -- Law and legislation
• Official secrets -- United States
• Regierung
• Intelligence service -- Law and legislation -- United States
• USA
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | International Security
• United States
• Geheimdienst
• Geheimhaltung

Language

eng

Summary

"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 Intelligence-which uncovered CIA plots to assassinate world leaders, including Fidel Castro's exploding cigar-uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first Atomic bomb, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to Iran Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This historical survey provides the essential context to understand recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz's Unchecked and Unbalanced, co-written with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch-a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy."--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

342.73/0662

Index

index present

LC call number

KF4774

LC item number

.S39 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography