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Nation of secrets : the threat to democracy and the American way of life
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Nation of secrets : the threat to democracy and the American way of life

Auteur: Ted Gup
Uitgever: New York : Doubleday, ©2007.
Editie/Formaat: Boek : Engels : 1st ed
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Investigative reporter Gup turns his attention to a broad range of American institutions, exposing how and why they keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve. Drawing on original reporting and analysis, Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security, patriotism, privacy, the national interest--in whose name secrecy is so often invoked. He shows how the  Meer lezen...
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Genre: Internetbron
Soort document: Boek, Internetbron
Alle auteurs / medewerkers: Ted Gup
ISBN: 9780385514750 0385514751
OCLC-nummer: 76871427
Beschrijving: 322 p. ; 25 cm.
Inhoud: Silent encroachments -- Case study: Inescapable secrecy -- National insecurity, part I : a secrecy born of fear, not reason -- Case study: A secret hell -- National insecurity, part II : secrecy means not having to say you're sorry -- Case study: Blacked out : a secret the CIA won't release -- Secret history -- Case study: He who must not be named -- Secrecy and the press -- Case study: A crime of secrecy? -- Secrets and the university -- Case study: A case unsealed -- Secret courts -- Case study: The Chambers effect -- Sounding the tocsin.
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Investigative reporter Gup turns his attention to a broad range of American institutions, exposing how and why they keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve. Drawing on original reporting and analysis, Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security, patriotism, privacy, the national interest--in whose name secrecy is so often invoked. He shows how the expanding thicket of classified information leads to the devaluation of the secrets we most need to keep, and that journalists have become pawns in the government's internal conflicts over access to information. He explores the exploitation of privacy and confidentiality in academia, business, and the courts, and concludes that in case after case, these principles have been twisted to allow the emergence of a shadow system of justice, unaccountable to the public.--From publisher description.

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