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Lords of Secrecy - The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Lords of Secrecy - The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Loot Price R498
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State secrecy is increasingly used as the explanation for the
shrinking of public discussion surrounding national security
issues. The phrase that's classified" is increasingly used not to
protect national secrets from legitimate enemies, but rather to
stifle public discourse regarding national security. Washington
today is inclined to see secrecy as a convenient cure to many of
its problems. But too often these problems are not challenges to
national security, they involve the embarrassment of political
figures, disclosure of mismanagement, incompetence and corruption
and even outright criminality.For national security issues to
figure in democratic deliberation, the public must have access to
basic facts that underlie the issues. The more those facts
disappear under a cloak of state secrecy, the less space remains
for democratic process and the more deliberation falls into the
hands of largely unelected national security elites. The way out
requires us to think much more critically and systematically about
secrecy and its role in a democratic state.
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