Spy watching : intelligence accountability in the United States /
"All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty, but intelligence organizations have secret budgets, gather information surreptitiously around the w...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Democracy and intelligence
- Part I: The magnitude of the challenge
- Tracking an elusive behemoth
- Intelligence exceptionalism
- Part II: The evolution of intelligence accountability
- Democracy comes to the secret agencies
- The experiment in intelligence accountability begins
- Spy watching in an age of terror
- Part III: The patterns of intelligence accountability
- A shock theory of intelligence accountability
- The media and intelligence accountability
- Ostriches, cheerleaders, lemon-suckers, and guardians
- Part IV: The practice of intelligence accountability
- In the trenches: collection and analysis, covert action
- In the wilderness: coping with counterintelligence
- Part V: The future of intelligence accountability
- Intelligence accountability and the nation's spy chiefs
- The ongoing quest for liberty and security
- Epilogue: Intelligence in the early Trump administration
- Appendix A: The organization of the U.S. intelligence community, 2017
- Appendix B: U.S. intelligence leadership, 1946-2017
- Appendix C: The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980