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The advent of the War on Terror has seen intelligence agencies
emerge out of the shadows to become major political players.
'Rendition', untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention
without trial are now fast becoming the norm. Spies, Lies and the
War on Terror traces the transformation of intelligence from a tool
for law enforcement to a means of avoiding the law - both national
and international. The new culture of victimhood in the US and
among partners in the 'coalition of the willing' has crushed
domestic liberties and formed a global network of extra-legal
licence. State and corporate interests are increasingly fused in
the new business of privatising fear. Todd & Bloch argue that
the bureaucracy and narrow political goals surrounding intelligence
actually have the potential to increase the terrorist threat. This
lively and shocking account is a must-read for anyone who wants to
understand the new power of intelligence.
The CIA, the KGB, MI5, Mossad, Boss, Savak, Dina - the names read
like a rollcall of the seamier side of history in the years
following the Second World War. Today the Cold War is dead; there
are fewer dictatorships; and 9/11 has created a whole new raison
d'etre for covert action. This book explains how the war on
terrorism provides a wholly new context for the murky world secret
services and intelligence agencies operate in, and describes in
detail how ultra-modern new technologies have vastly increased
their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home. This up-to-date
account raises important issues, including the new roles the secret
services have found for themselves as they target 'rogue states',
'the war on drugs', and 'terrorists'. Most important of all, its
authors explore the unsolved contradiction between the world of
these secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes
of the law, and the requirements of a free and democratic society.
There is, they conclude, 'no easy walk to freedom'.
The CIA, the KGB, MI5, Mossad, Boss, Savak, Dina - the names read
like a rollcall of the seamier side of history in the years
following the Second World War. Today the Cold War is dead; there
are fewer dictatorships; and 9/11 has created a whole new raison
d'etre for covert action. This book explains how the war on
terrorism provides a wholly new context for the murky world secret
services and intelligence agencies operate in, and describes in
detail how ultra-modern new technologies have vastly increased
their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home. This up-to-date
account raises important issues, including the new roles the secret
services have found for themselves as they target 'rogue states',
'the war on drugs', and 'terrorists'. Most important of all, its
authors explore the unsolved contradiction between the world of
these secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes
of the law, and the requirements of a free and democratic society.
There is, they conclude, 'no easy walk to freedom'.
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