As seen on The Daily Show, July 24
State secrets, warrantless investigations and wiretaps, signing
statements, executive privilege -- the executive branch wields many
tools for secrecy. Since the middle of the twentieth century,
presidents have used myriad tactics to expand and maintain a level
of executive branch power unprecedented in this nation's
history.
Most people believe that some degree of governmental secrecy is
necessary. But how much is too much? At what point does withholding
information from Congress, the courts, and citizens abuse the
public trust? How does the nation reclaim rights that have been
controlled by one branch of government?
With Presidential Secrecy and the Law, Robert M. Pallitto and
William G. Weaver attempt to answer these questions by examining
the history of executive branch efforts to consolidate power
through information control. They find the nation's democracy
damaged and its Constitution corrupted by staunch information
suppression, a process accelerated when "black sites," "enemy
combatants," and "ghost detainees" were added to the vernacular
following the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.
Tracing the current constitutional dilemma from the days of the
imperial presidency to the unitary executive embraced by the
administration of George W. Bush, Pallitto and Weaver reveal an
alarming erosion of the balance of power. Presidential Secrecy and
the Law will be the standard in presidential powers studies for
years to come.
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