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-public laws and opaque, unaccountable institutions, the current administration has created a secret presidency run by classified presidential decisions and orders about national security. A hyperactive Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice is intent on eliminating checks on presidential power and testing that power's limits. Decisions are…
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Weitere Autoren: Huq, Aziz Z.
- ISBN: 978-1-59558-745-9
- EAN: 9781595587459
- Produktnummer: 22228141
- Verlag: The New Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 476 KB
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