Presidential Secrecy And The Law

Author : Robert M. Pallitto,William G. Weaver
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801892103

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Presidential Secrecy and the Law by Robert M. Pallitto,William G. Weaver Pdf

A look at how U.S. presidents from Truman to George W. Bush employed secrecy and how it has affected the presidency and the American government. 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. “The well-organized and clearly written book illustrates the way the president’s use of document classification and state-secrets privilege to solidify presidential control are reinforced by legal decisions sympathetic to presidential power.” —Chronicle of Higher Education

Author : Mary Graham
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300223743

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Presidents' Secrets by Mary Graham Pdf

Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting--the Constitutional Convention--presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations. For the first one hundred and twenty years, a culture of open government persisted, but new threats and technology have long since shattered the old bargains. Today, presidents neither protect vital information nor provide the open debate Americans expect.

Author : Robert M. Pallitto,William G. Weaver
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0801885833

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Presidential Secrecy and the Law by Robert M. Pallitto,William G. Weaver Pdf

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Author : John M. Orman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Deception
ISBN : 031304032X

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Presidential Secrecy and Deception by John M. Orman Pdf

Author : Heidi Kitrosser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226191638

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Reclaiming Accountability by Heidi Kitrosser Pdf

Americans have long treated government accountability as a birthright. However, accountability is frequently tossed about in a rhetorically effective but substantively empty way. We often feel that those in government “work for us” and therefore must “answer to us,” but fail to grapple with the conditions under which we can really assess how accountable our government is. This is especially true with respect to matters of secrecy and transparency in government as, while we routinely voice support for transparency and accountability, we too often tolerate secrecy when associated with “national security.” The government plainly needs to keep some information secret, and there are ways to reconcile secrecy with accountability. In Reclaiming Accountability, unchecked secrecy is the primary concern as insufficient checking breeds unnecessary, even counterproductive, secrecy and is also deeply antithetical to accountability. Heidi Kitrosser shows how, for all of its influence, “presidentialism” badly misreads the Constitution. The book first explains presidentialism and its major component parts – “supremacy” and “unitary executive theory.” It then details how supremacy and unitary executive theory manifest themselves as arguments for a broad presidential power to control information. The descriptive elements lay the groundwork for Kitrosser's two normative arguments. The first is that the Constitution situates the presidency within a substantive accountability framework that entails substantial congressional and judicial leeway to impose and enforce external and internal checks on presidential power to foster transparency and accountability. And, closely related, the second argument is that supremacy and unitary executive theory misread the Constitution.

Author : David Priess
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610395960

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The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess Pdf

Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top–secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply “the Book.” Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character–rich stories revealed here for the first time.

Author : Mark J. Rozell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002878614

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Executive Privilege by Mark J. Rozell Pdf

This book provides an in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege from President Nixon to President Obama, and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power.

Author : Charlie Savage
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316286602

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Power Wars by Charlie Savage Pdf

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.

Author : Adam B. Cox,Cristina M. Rodríguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190694388

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The President and Immigration Law by Adam B. Cox,Cristina M. Rodríguez Pdf

Who controls American immigration policy? The biggest immigration controversies of the last decade have all involved policies produced by the President policies such as President Obama's decision to protect Dreamers from deportation and President Trump's proclamation banning immigrants from several majority-Muslim nations. While critics of these policies have been separated by a vast ideological chasm, their broadsides have embodied the same widely shared belief: that Congress, not the President, ought to dictate who may come to the United States and who will be forced to leave. This belief is a myth. In The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became our immigration policymaker-in-chief. Diving deep into the history of American immigration policy from founding-era disputes over deporting sympathizers with France to contemporary debates about asylum-seekers at the Southern border they show how migration crises, real or imagined, have empowered presidents. Far more importantly, they also uncover how the Executive's ordinary power to decide when to enforce the law, and against whom, has become an extraordinarily powerful vehicle for making immigration policy. This pathbreaking account helps us understand how the United States ?has come to run an enormous shadow immigration system-one in which nearly half of all noncitizens in the country are living in violation of the law. It also provides a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays in shaping the national community, while also outlining strategies to curb the abuse of law enforcement authority in immigration and beyond.

Author : Louis Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015059116692

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Presidential War Power by Louis Fisher Pdf

For this new edition, Louis Fisher has updated his arguments to include critiques of the Clinton & Bush presidencies, particularly the Use of Force Act, the Iraq Resolution of 2002, the 'preemption doctrine' of the current U.S. administration, & the order authorizing military tribunals.

Author : Raoul Berger
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Executive power
ISBN : UCAL:B4176722

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Executive Privilege by Raoul Berger Pdf

Demonstrates that the presidential claim of authority to withhold information is without historical or constitutional foundation.

Author : Dan A. Farber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520343948

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Contested Ground by Dan A. Farber Pdf

"Presidential power is hotly disputed these days - as it has been many times in recent decades. Yet the same rules must apply to all presidents, those whose abuses of power we fear as well as those whose exercises of power we applaud. This book is about what constitutional law tells us about presidential power and its limits. It is very difficult to strike the right balance between limiting abuse of power and authorizing its exercise when needed. This book advocates a balanced, pragmatic approach to these issues, rooted in history and Supreme Court rulings"--

Author : Chris Edelson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299307400

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Power Without Constraint by Chris Edelson Pdf

Despite rhetorical differences, the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have both claimed broadly unrestrained presidential power in matters of military force, surveillance, and the state secrets privilege.

Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Executive power
ISBN : 0618420010

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The Imperial Presidency by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Pdf

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Author : Louis Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199856213

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The Law of the Executive Branch by Louis Fisher Pdf

The Law of the Executive Branch: Presidential Power places the law of the executive branch firmly in the context of constitutional language, framers' intent, and more than two centuries of practice. Each provision of the US Constitution is analyzed to reveal its contemporary meaning and in concert with the application of presidential power.