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Who'S Watching the Spies?: Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability

Paperback

Main Details

Title Who'S Watching the Spies?: Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr. Hans Born
By (author) Lock Johnson
By (author) Ian Leigh
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 150
ISBN/Barcode 9781574888973
ClassificationsDewey:353.17235
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Potomac Books Inc
Imprint Potomac Books Inc
Publication Date 30 July 2005
Publication Country United States

Description

Given recent experiences with terrorism, clearly even the most democratic societies have a legitimate need for secrecy. This secrecy has often been abused, however, and strong oversight systems are necessary to protect individual liberties. The assembled authors, each well known in the international community of national security scholars, bring together in one volume the rich experience of three decades of experimentation in intelligence accountability. Using a structured approach, they examine the strengths and weaknesses of the intelligence systems of Argentina, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. While these democracies have experimented with methods to make intelligence more accountable, they all have different political systems, political cultures, legal systems, and democratic traditions, thereby presenting an exceptional opportunity to examine how intelligence accountability evolves under disparate circumstances. The contributors draw together the best practices into a framework for successful approaches to intelligence accountability, including a prescription for a model law.