| Description |
xvii, 222 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Watching the Watchmen / Daniel Baldino -- The Australian Intelligence Community / David Wright-Neville -- Democratic Accountability of the US Intelligence Community / David Lundberg -- Accountability of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Community Post 9/11: Still a long and winding road? / Jez Littlewood -- New Zealand: Small Community, Central Control / Jim Rolfe -- Britian's Machinery of Intelligence Accountability: Realistic Oversight in the Absence of Moral Panic / Philip H J Davies -- The Challenges of Intelligence Oversight in a Normalising Japan / Brad Williams-- The Politicisation of Intelligence / Michael Wesley -- Oversight Matters / Daniel Baldino |
| Summary |
Intelligence has come to play an increasingly important role in the shaping of policy and policing action around the world. Democratic Oversight of Intelligence Services reflects upon democratic principles applicable to the intelligence sector and the proper oversight mechanisms to install accountability for organisations that operate under a cloak of secrecy. By its very nature, the collection of intelligence also raises a number of ethical and moral questions and appropriate reforms need to be researched, discussed and debated. Reliable and realistic democratic systems of oversight must deal with special executive powers, the requirements of secrecy, the relationship between processes and structures and other hot-potato national security issues. This book addresses the development of, and the challenges and impediments to, democratic oversight and review of the intelligence community in Australia, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, the United States and United Kingdom. The promotion of democratic oversight of the intelligence community has gained renewed significance in the aftermath of 9/11. Legal and administrative frameworks, executive prerogatives and power - and their potential abuses, operational work and analytical tradecraft, crisis management, human rights, state-sponsored detention and interrogation policy and the separation of powers are discussed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Intelligence service -- Law and legislation.
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Intelligence service -- Government policy.
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Legislative oversight.
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Government accountability.
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| ISBN |
9781862877412 |
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