Who's Watching The Spies?: Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability - Softcover

Born, Dr Hans; Johnson, Loch K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574888978 ISBN 13: 9781574888973

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

Given 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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"[A] valuable contribution to the subject literature." --PARAMETERS

Edition details

• Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574888978
• ISBN 13: 9781574888973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272