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Whistleblowing Nation - The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (Hardcover)
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Whistleblowing Nation - The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (Hardcover)
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The twenty-first century witnessed a new age of whistleblowing in
the United States. Disclosures by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden,
and others have stoked heated public debates about the ethics of
exposing institutional secrets, with roots in a longer history of
state insiders revealing privileged information. Bringing together
contributors from a range of disciplines to consider political,
legal, and cultural dimensions, Whistleblowing Nation is a
pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state
secrecy from World War I to the present. The contributors explore
the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation
of state secrets that threaten the status quo, challenging
reductive characterizations of whistleblowers as heroes or
traitors. They examine the dynamics of state retaliation, political
backlash, and civic contests over the legitimacy and significance
of the exposure and the whistleblower. The volume considers the
growing power of the executive branch and its consequences for
First Amendment rights, the protection and prosecution of
whistleblowers, and the rise of vast classification and censorship
regimes within the national-security state. Featuring analyses from
leading historians, literary scholars, legal experts, and political
scientists, Whistleblowing Nation sheds new light on the tension of
secrecy and transparency, security and civil liberties, and the
politics of truth and falsehood.
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