{"product_id":"spy-watching-intelligence-accountability-in-the-united-states-9780190682712","title":"Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States","description":"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\u003cbr\u003eworld, 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003eUnited States to these threats, the planet would be an even more perilous place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSpy Watching\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003eprotocol 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\u003cbr\u003erendition 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, \u003cem\u003e Spy Watching\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to find a sensible balance between the twin imperatives in a democracy of liberty and security. Johnson draws on\u003cbr\u003escores of interviews with Directors of Central Intelligence and others in America's secret agencies, making this a uniquely authoritative account.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Loch K. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 632\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 2.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190682712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoch K. Johnson\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of America's leading experts on the nation's intelligence organizations. He is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and served as staff director of the Senate Committee on Intelligence, as well as assistant to the chairman of the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence. Johnson is the author of \u003cem\u003eAmerica's Secret Power\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Threat on the Horizon\u003c\/em\u003e, both published by Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40287219875955,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":36.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_dd92bbd5-ac8a-4f19-acec-e6e00ee5bb9f.jpg?v=1658236123","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/spy-watching-intelligence-accountability-in-the-united-states-9780190682712","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}