Democracy in the Dark
The Seduction of Government Secrecy
A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in (The Washington Post). From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church Committee on Intelligence-which uncovered the FBI's effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide; the CIA's enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA's thirty-…
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Weitere Autoren: Brookmyre, Christopher / Schwarz Jr., Frederick A. O. / Schwarz, Frederick A. O.
- ISBN: 978-1-62097-052-2
- EAN: 9781620970522
- Produktnummer: 22228061
- Verlag: The New Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 418 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 690 KB
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Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. is chief counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He was chief counsel to the Church Committee, New York City corporation counsel, and the head of the Law Department of the City of New York. He co-authored Unchecked and Unbalanced (The New Press) with Aziz Huq and lives in New York.
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