Who's Watching the Spies?

Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability

Loch K Johnson author Dr Hans Born author Loch K Johnson editor Dr Hans Born editor Ian Leigh editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Potomac Books Inc

Published:1st Jul '05

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Who's Watching the Spies? cover

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.

ISBN: 9781574888973

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 399g

272 pages