Spy Watching - Intelligence Accountability in the United StatesPevná vazba
Spy Watching - Intelligence Accountability in the United StatesPevná vazba All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively…
Specifikacia Spy Watching - Intelligence Accountability in the United StatesPevná vazba
Spy Watching - Intelligence Accountability in the United StatesPevná vazba
All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. 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. 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.
Yet Americans live in an uncertain and threatening world filled with nuclear warheads, chemical and biological weapons, and terrorists intent on destruction. In this sense, democracy and intelligence have always been a poor match. Without an intelligence apparatus scanning the globe to alert the United