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05433aam a2200481 i 4500 001 A0E07DE6580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170825s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017015734 020 $a 019068271X 020 $a 9780190682712 035 $a (OCoLC)982093023 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d JAI $d YDX $d OCLCO $d VA@ $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK468.I6 $b J665 2018 082 00 $a 327.1273 $2 23 084 $a HIS027060 $a POL012000 $a HIS027060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Johnson, Loch K., $d 1942- $e author. 245 10 $a Spy watching : $b intelligence accountability in the United States / $c Loch K. Johnson. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xii, 615 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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 world, and plan covert action against foreign regimes. Sometimes, they have even targeted the very citizens they were established to protect, as with the COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s and 1970s, carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against civil rights and antiwar activists. In this sense, democracy and intelligence have always been a poor match. Yet Americans live in an uncertain and threatening world filled with nuclear warheads, chemical and biological weapons, and terrorists intent on destruction. Without an intelligence apparatus scanning the globe to alert the United States to these threats, the planet would be an even more perilous place. In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services. Johnson explores the work of the famous Church Committee, a Senate panel that investigated America's espionage organizations in 1975 and established new protocol for supervising the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the nation's other sixteen secret services. Johnson explores why partisanship has crept into once-neutral intelligence operations, the effect of the 9/11 attacks on the expansion of spying, and the controversies related to CIA rendition and torture programs. He also discusses both the Edward Snowden case and the ongoing investigations into the Russian hack of the 2016 US election. Above all, Spy Watching seeks to find a sensible balance between the twin imperatives in a democracy of liberty and security. Johnson draws on scores of interviews with Directors of Central Intelligence and others in America's secret agencies, making this a uniquely authoritative account."-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Given the dangers in the world--from terrorism to pandemics--nations must have effective spy services; yet, to prevent the misuse of secret power, democracies must also ensure that their spies are well supervised. This book focuses on the obstacles encountered by America as it pursues more effective intelligence accountability"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction: Democracy and intelligence -- Part I: The magnitude of the challenge -- Tracking an elusive behemoth -- Intelligence exceptionalism -- Part II: The evolution of intelligence accountability -- CDemocracy 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. 650 0 $a Intelligence service $z United States. 650 0 $a Government accountability $z United States. 650 0 $a Transparency in government $z United States. 650 0 $a Legislative oversight $z United States. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Intelligence. $x Intelligence. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x International Security. $x International Security. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $x Strategy. $x Strategy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Government accountability. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01746414 650 7 $a Intelligence service. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975848 650 7 $a Legislative oversight. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995810 650 7 $a Transparency in government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01154902 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213021538.0 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20190402010700.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A0E07DE6580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search