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Democracy in the dark : the seduction of government secrecy /

"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 I...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwarz, Frederick A. O. (Frederick August Otto), 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New Press, The, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • From the Garden of Eden to America's founding
  • More openness to more secrecy : America from the founding to the secrecy era
  • Appropriate secrecy and its limits : 9/11, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and where to drop the first atomic bomb
  • Building power through secrecy : J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Cheney
  • Six secrecy stories : from slavery to science
  • Cultures of secrecy
  • The seduction of secrecy
  • Leaks, investigative journalism, and nonprofit watchdogs
  • Congress I : investigation and oversight
  • Congress II : the Freedom of Information Act
  • The courts and secrecy
  • Author's note: Personal encounters with secrecy.