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Spy Watching : Intelligence Accountability in the United States.

Given the dangers they face, nations must have effective spy services. Democracies must also ensure, however, that their spies are well supervised in order to prevent abuses of secret power. In Spy Watching, a sweeping history of how America's spy agencies have wrestled with public accountabili...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Loch K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Given the dangers they face, nations must have effective spy services. Democracies must also ensure, however, that their spies are well supervised in order to prevent abuses of secret power. In Spy Watching, a sweeping history of how America's spy agencies have wrestled with public accountability, one of America's leading experts on the intelligence community, shows how the tension between liberty and security has been at the heart of every major intelligence controversy from the early Cold War up through the issue of Russia's role in the 2016 election.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (633 pages)
ISBN:9780190682729
0190682728