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Author Pallitto, Robert M

Title Presidential Secrecy and the Law
Published Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Secret Presidency -- 1 The Secret Presidency in Historical-Theoretical Perspective -- 2 The Classified President -- 3 State Secrets and Executive Power -- 4 The Shadow President: The Attorney General, Executive Power, and the New Anti-Terror Laws -- 5 The President and National Security Surveillance -- 6 The New Executive Privilege -- Conclusion: A Secret Presidency for the New Millennium? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P
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Summary Annotation As seen on The Daily Show, July 24 State secrets, warrantless investigations and wiretaps, signing statements, executive privilegethe executive branch wields many tools for secrecy. Since the middle of the twentieth century, presidents have used myriad tactics to expand and maintain a level of executive branch power unprecedented in this nation's history. Most people believe that some degree of governmental secrecy is necessary. But how much is too much? At what point does withholding information from Congress, the courts, and citizens abuse the public trust? How does the nation reclaim rights that have been controlled by one branch of government? With Presidential Secrecy and the Law, Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver attempt to answer these questions by examining the history of executive branch efforts to consolidate power through information control. They find the nation's democracy damaged and its Constitution corrupted by staunch information suppression, a process accelerated when "black sites," "enemy combatants," and "ghost detainees" were added to the vernacular following the September 11, 2001, terror strikes. Tracing the current constitutional dilemma from the days of the imperial presidency to the unitary executive embraced by the administration of George W. Bush, Pallitto and Weaver reveal an alarming erosion of the balance of power. Presidential Secrecy and the Law will be the standard in presidential powers studies for years to come
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-254) and index
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Subject Executive privilege (Government information) -- United States
Separation of powers -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
Executive privilege (Government information)
Separation of powers
Parlamentarische Kontrolle
Vollziehende Gewalt
Staatsgeheimnis
Gewaltenteilung
Presidentieel systeem.
Geheimhouding.
Uitvoerende macht.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Form Electronic book
Author Weaver, William G
ISBN 9780801892103
0801892104
9781435692633
1435692632