Title National Security Secrecy : Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law / Sudha Setty

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages) : PDF file(s) Series ASCL Studies in Comparative Law ASCL studies in comparative law. Contents Executive branch secrecy -- Congressional complicity -- An overly deferential judiciary -- International and supranational norms -- The United Kingdom -- India -- Public and political resilience -- Individual privacy and secrecy : a matter of contract or a human right? Summary Excessive government secrecy in the name of counterterrorism has had a corrosive effect on democracy and the rule of law. In the United States, when controversial national security programs were run by the Bush and Obama administrations - including in areas of targeted killings, torture, extraordinary rendition, and surveillance - excessive secrecy often prevented discovery of those actions. Both administrations insisted they acted legally, but often refused to explain how they interpreted the governing law to justify their actions. They also fought to keep Congress from exercising oversight, to keep courts from questioning the legality of these programs, and to keep the public in the dark. Similar patterns have arisen in other democracies around the world. In National Security Secrecy, Sudha Setty takes a critical and comparative look at these problems and demonstrates how government transparency, privacy, and accountability should provide the basis for reform Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2017) Subject Secrecy -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain Secrecy -- Law and legislation -- India National security -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain National security -- Law and legislation -- India Privacy, Right of -- Great Britain Privacy, Right of -- India Government information -- Law and legislation. Democracy. Rule of law. Democracy Government information -- Law and legislation National security -- Law and legislation Privacy, Right of Rule of law Secrecy -- Law and legislation Great Britain India Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316440674 1316440672 110713062X 9781107130623 1107576474 9781107576476

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