National Security Surveillance And Terror

Author : Randy K. Lippert,Kevin Walby,Ian Warren,Darren Palmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319432434

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National Security, Surveillance and Terror by Randy K. Lippert,Kevin Walby,Ian Warren,Darren Palmer Pdf

This edited collection brings together leading scholars to comparatively investigate national security, surveillance and terror in the early 21st century in two major western jurisdictions, Canada and Australia. Observing that much debate about these topics is dominated by US and UK perspectives, the volume provides penetrating analysis of national security and surveillance practices in two under-studied countries that reveals critical insights into current trends. Written by a wide range of experts in their respective fields, this book addresses a fascinating array of timely questions about the relationship among national security, privacy and terror in the two countries and beyond. Chapters include critical assessments of topics such as: National Security Intelligence Collection since 9/11, The Border as Checkpoint in an Age of Hemispheric Security and Surveillance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Law Enforcement, as well as Federal Government Departments and Security Regimes. An engaging and empirically driven study, this collection will be of great interest to scholars of security and surveillance studies, policing, and comparative criminology.

Author : Johan Lidberg,Denis Muller
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783087716

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In the Name of Security Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism by Johan Lidberg,Denis Muller Pdf

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 saw the start of the so-called war on terror. The aim of ‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ is to assess the impact of surveillance and other security measures on in-depth public interest journalism. How has the global fear-driven security paradigm sparked by 11 September affected journalism? At the core of the book sits what the authors have labeled the ‘trust us dilemma’. Governments justify passing, at times, oppressive and far-reaching anti-terror laws to keep citizens safe from terror. By doing so governments are asking the public to trust their good intentions and the integrity of the security agencies. But how can the public decide to trust the government and its agencies if it does not have access to information on which to base its decision? ‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ takes an internationally comparative approach using case studies from the powerful intelligence-sharing group known as the Five Eyes consisting of the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Chapters assessing a selection of EU countries and some of the BRICS countries provide additional and important points of comparison to the English-speaking countries that make up the Five Eyes.

Author : Kim Masters Evans
Publisher : Information Plus
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1414407661

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National Security by Kim Masters Evans Pdf

Contains primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, charts, quotes, and articles, that provide information about national security in the United States, covering organization, international terrorism, the War on Terror, homeland security, countries of concern, proliferation of weapons, American civil liberties, human rights, and U.S. relations with the Islamic world.

Author : Fergal Davis,Nicola McGarrity,George Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134095278

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Surveillance, Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism by Fergal Davis,Nicola McGarrity,George Williams Pdf

The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted to many law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This book brings together leading legal scholars in the field of counter-terrorism and constitutional law, and focuses their attention on the issue of surveillance. The breadth of topics covered in this collection include: the growth and diversification of mechanisms of mass surveillance, the challenges that technological developments pose for constitutionalism, new actors in the surveillance state (such as local communities and private organisations), the use of surveillance material as evidence in court, and the effectiveness of constitutional and other forms of review of surveillance powers. The book brings a strong legal focus to the debate surrounding surveillance and counter-terrorism, and draws important conclusions about the constitutional implications of the expansion of surveillance powers after 9/11.

Author : Kirstie Ball,Ana Canhato,Elizabeth Daniel,Sally Dibb,Maureen Meadows,Keith Spiller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8763003325

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The Private Security State? by Kirstie Ball,Ana Canhato,Elizabeth Daniel,Sally Dibb,Maureen Meadows,Keith Spiller Pdf

When businesses are required to send customer data to government, their systems and their employees become part of a wider security framework. Their commercial activities become shot through with insecurities and they are placed in a kind of double jeopardy: a failure to address these regulations can result in both national and commercial insecurity. The Private Security State? is the first full-length academic text to address the enrolment of the private sector in national security surveillance regimes. Through detailed empirical analysis, it questions how private organizations achieve compliance with demands for customer data. The book revolves around case studies of two public-private surveillance regimes: Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terror Finance in retail financial services and the EBorders in the retail travel industry.

Author : David Cole,James Dempsey
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781595585868

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Terrorism and the Constitution by David Cole,James Dempsey Pdf

Tracing the history of government intrusions on Constitutional rights in response to threats from abroad, Cole and Dempsey warn that a society in which civil liberties are sacrificed in the name of national security is in fact less secure than one in which they are upheld. A new chapter includes a discussion of domestic spying, preventive detention, the many court challenges to post-9/11 abuses, implementation of the PATRIOT ACT, and efforts to reestablish the checks and balances left behind in the rush to strengthen governmental powers.

Author : Russell A. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134064434

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US National Security, Intelligence and Democracy by Russell A. Miller Pdf

This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and many of the legal boundaries operating on US intelligence agencies today are the direct result of reforms proposed by the Church Committee, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Church Committee also drew attention to the importance of constitutional government as a Congressional body overseeing the activities of the Executive branch. Placing the legacy of the Church Committee in the context of the contemporary debate over US national security and democratic governance, the book brings together contributions from distinguished policy leaders and scholars of law, intelligence and political science.

Author : Maureen Webb
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0872864766

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Illusions of Security by Maureen Webb Pdf

The government is spying on us. Here's how, and what we can do about it.

Author : Dean Reuter,John Yoo
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594035630

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Confronting Terror by Dean Reuter,John Yoo Pdf

After the September 11, 2001 attacks the United States went to war. With thousands of Americans killed, billions of dollars in damage, and aggressive military and security measures in response, we are still living with the war a decade later. A change of presidential administration has not dulled controversy over the most fundamental objectives, strategies and tactics of the war, or whether it is even a war. This book clears the air over the meaning of 9/11, and sets the stage for a reasoned, clear, and considered discussion of the future with a collection of essays commemorating the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The contributors include supporters and critics of the war on terrorism, policymakers and commentators, insiders and outsiders, and some of the leading voices inside and outside government.

Author : Philip D. O'Neill (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073987409

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National Security and the Legal Process by Philip D. O'Neill (Jr.) Pdf

"Explores the impact of terror and WMD proliferation on national and international law as it pertains to areas ranging from sovereignty vs. intervention under international law to 21st century topics including terror finance, electronic intelligence gathering and detention practices. Volume 2 serves as a documentary research tool providing original text of the various documents discussed in Volume 1"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Shane Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101195741

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The Watchers by Shane Harris Pdf

Using exclusive access to key insiders, Shane Harris charts the rise of America's surveillance state over the past twenty-five years and highlights a dangerous paradox: Our government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on the rest of us. Our surveillance state was born in the brain of Admiral John Poindexter in 1983. Poindexter, Reagan's National Security Advisor, realized that the United States might have prevented the terrorist massacre of 241 Marines in Beirut if only intelligence agencies had been able to analyze in real time data they had on the attackers. Poindexter poured government know-how and funds into his dream-a system that would sift reams of data for signs of terrorist activity. Decades later, that elusive dream still captivates Washington. After the 2001 attacks, Poindexter returned to government with a controversial program, called Total Information Awareness, to detect the next attack. Today it is a secretly funded operation that can gather personal information on every American and millions of others worldwide. But Poindexter's dream has also become America's nightmare. Despite billions of dollars spent on this digital quest since the Reagan era, we still can't discern future threats in the vast data cloud that surrounds us all. But the government can now spy on its citizens with an ease that was impossible-and illegal-just a few years ago. Drawing on unprecedented access to the people who pioneered this high-tech spycraft, Harris shows how it has shifted from the province of right- wing technocrats to a cornerstone of the Obama administration's war on terror. Harris puts us behind the scenes and in front of the screens where twenty-first-century spycraft was born. We witness Poindexter quietly working from the private sector to get government to buy in to his programs in the early nineties. We see an army major agonize as he carries out an order to delete the vast database he's gathered on possible terror cells-and on thousands of innocent Americans-months before 9/11. We follow General Mike Hayden as he persuades the Bush administration to secretly monitor Americans based on a flawed interpretation of the law. After Congress publicly bans the Total Information Awareness program in 2003, we watch as it is covertly shifted to a "black op," which protects it from public scrutiny. When the next crisis comes, our government will inevitably crack down on civil liberties, but it will be no better able to identify new dangers. This is the outcome of a dream first hatched almost three decades ago, and The Watchers is an engrossing, unnerving wake-up call.

Author : Dana Priest,William M. Arkin
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316194044

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Top Secret America by Dana Priest,William M. Arkin Pdf

The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In Top Secret America, award-winning reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission, and consequences of this invisible universe of over 1,300 government facilities in every state in America; nearly 2,000 outside companies used as contractors; and more than 850,000 people granted "Top Secret" security clearance. A landmark exposé of a new, secret "Fourth Branch" of American government, Top Secret America is a tour de force of investigative reporting-and a book sure to spark national and international alarm.

Author : Matthew Brzezinski
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : 9780553382532

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Fortress America by Matthew Brzezinski Pdf

The author explores the world of terrorism prevention and its effects on our daily lives and what it might mena to live in what he refers to as "Fortress America."

Author : Stanley A. Cohen
Publisher : Markham : LexisNexis Butterworths
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0433447443

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Privacy, Crime and Terror by Stanley A. Cohen Pdf

Author : Joseph H. Campos Ii
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317014829

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The State and Terrorism by Joseph H. Campos Ii Pdf

Adopting an innovative approach to the ongoing debate over homeland security and state response to terrorism, Joseph Campos investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. New ideas developed in this book reflect ways in which national security is mobilized through specific discourse to manage threats. In addition, a review of presidential rhetoric over the last 30 years reveals that national security discourse has maintained an ideological hegemony to determine what constitutes violence and appropriate responses. The volume incorporates historical depth and critical theory in a comparative framework to provide an invaluable insight into how national security is developed and how it works with the concept of terrorism to secure the state.