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Unchecked And Unbalanced : Presidential Power in a Time of Terror.

Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has elevated the flaws identified by the committee into first principles of government. Through a constellation of non-publ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwarz, Frederick A. O.
Otros Autores: Huq, Aziz Z.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction; Part I Cold War Lessons; 1 Flawed Mandates: Early Years of the FBI and CIA; 2 Revelations of the Church Committee; 3 Reform and Resistance: Consequences of the Church Committee; Part II Adopting Tactics of the Enemy; 4 Our Torture Policy; 5 "Extraordinary Rendition" and the Wages of Hypocrisy; 6 Bringing War Back Home; Part III The Constitution Turned Upside Down; 7 Kings and Presidents; 8 The King's Counsel; Conclusion: A Republic, If You Can Keep It; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Index. 
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