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Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law
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Item Description...
Overview
Examines the history of the role of free press in democracy and argues that unrestrained leaking of government secrets in post-9/11 America endangers national security.
Publishers Description
"LEAKING"-the unauthorized disclosure to the press of secret informationis a well-established part of the U.S. government's normal functioning. Gabriel Schoenfeld examines history and legal precedent to argue that leaks of highly classified national-security secrets have reached hitherto unthinkable extremes, with dangerous potential for post-9/11 America. He starts with the New York Times's recent decision to reveal the existence of top-secret counterterrorism programs, tipping off al-Qaeda operatives to the intelligence methods designed to apprehend them. He then steps back to the Founding Fathers' intense preoccupation with secrecy in the conduct of foreign policy. Shifting to the twentieth century, he scrutinizes some of the more extraordinary leaks and their consequences, from the public disclosure of the vulnerability of Japanese diplomatic codes in the years before Pearl Harbor to the publication of the Pentagon Papers in the Nixon era, to the systematic exposure of undercover CIA agents by the renegade CIA agent Philip Agee.
Returning to our present dilemmas, Schoenfeld discovers a growing rift between a press that sees itself as the heroic force promoting the public's "right to know" and a government that needs to safeguard information vital to the effective conduct of national defense. Schoenfeld places the tension between openness and security in the context of a broader debate about freedom of the press and its limits.
With the United States still at war, Necessary Secrets is of burning contemporary interest. But it is much more than a book of the moment. Grappling with one of the most perplexing conundrums of our democratic order, it offers a masterful contribution to the enduring challenge of interpreting the First Amendment. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 309
Dimensions: Length: 1.25" Width: 6.5" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 1.1 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Aug 16, 2010
ISBN 0393076482
EAN 9780393076486
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