SECURING FREEDOM: The former head of MI5 on freedom, intelligence, the rule of law, torture and security
Language: English
Published by Profile Books, London, 2012
- First Edition
- Softcover
- New
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New ZealandThe Secret Bookshop
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A very clean copy which has not been read. Eliza Manningham‑Buller’s 2011 BBC Reith Lectures, in which the former Director‑General of MI5 reflects on the balance between liberty and security in the post‑9/11 world. Drawing on her decades inside Britain’s domestic intelligence service, she discusses how intelligence is gathered, why surveillance is sometimes necessary, and why the rule of law must remain central even when facing terrorism.
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- Title
- SECURING FREEDOM: The former head of MI5 on freedom, intelligence, the rule of law, torture and security
- Author
- MANNINGHAM-BULLER, ELIZA
- Publisher
- Profile Books, London
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1781250154
- ISBN 13
- 9781781250150
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- History, Military
How do we balance our belief in human freedom with the need to defend ourselves against those who believe the use of terror can be justified? Can our handling of security risk and the laws we pass to deal with them distort our response to the threat of terrorism?
In this sobering and remarkably frank analysis based on her 2011 Reith Lectures, Eliza Manningham-Buller, ex-Director General of MI5, the British Security Service, talks about key events during her tenure - from the threat of the IRA to al-Qaeda. She states that torture works but must never be used, how intelligence is gathered and why surveillance is necessary to protect democracy, the importance of the rule of law and why without security there can be no liberty.
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About the Author
Eliza Manningham-Buller joined MI5 in 1974. During her career she worked to counter the full range of security threats facing the UK, her main focus being counterterrorism. She led the section responsible for investigating international terrorism at the time of the Lockerbie bombing. Later she was posted to Washington as the senior liaison officer from MI5 to the US intelligence community, a period that coincided with the first Gulf War in 1991. On her return to London the following year she established and led a new section responsible for countering Irish terrorism on the British mainland.
Manningham-Buller was promoted to the MI5 management board in 1993. She was appointed Deputy Director-General in 1997. She became Director-General in 2002 and led MI5 through major changes in the wake of 9/11 while dealing with a greatly increased terrorist threat. Under her leadership the service nearly doubled in size and opened a network of new offices around the UK.
She retired in 2007, after thirty-three years at MI5. She now sits on the crossbenches in the House of Lords where she is a member of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy and the Privileges and Conduct Committee. She chairs the Sub-Committee on Lord's Conduct. She is also Chair of the Council of Imperial College and a Governor of the Wellcome Trust.
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