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Backroom deals in our backyards : how government secrecy harms our communities and the local heroes fighting back / by Spivack, Miranda S.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Hiding in plain sight -- Small town, big secrets -- Public roads, hidden dangers -- The safety gear detective -- Toxic brew, concealed deals -- Chipping away at the new blue wall -- Playbook for accidental activists -- Conclusion: We can overcome the threat to democracy that secrecy poses."A work of investigative reporting on five "accidental activists" who fight back against local and state governments to keep their communities safe. Most Americans are likely to encounter the effects of government malfeasance or neglect close to home-from their governors, mayors, town councils, school boards, police, and prosecutors. In fact, deals shrouded in darkness are regularly made at the state and local levels, often the result of closed-door discussions between governments and industry without any scrutiny whatsoever from the public. Too often, as this groundbreaking new work of investigative reporting reveals, residents are intentionally kept on the outside, struggling to get information about significant issues affecting their communities-from car crashes and dirty drinking water, to failing safety gear-until the backroom deals are done and it's too late to challenge them. A work of riveting narrative nonfiction based on years of original reporting, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards tells the story of five "accidental activists"-people from across the United States who started questioning why their local and state governments didn't protect them from issues facing their communities and why there was a frightening lack of transparency surrounding the way these issues were resolved. The secret deals, lies, and corruption they uncover shake their faith in government but move them to action."--

Subjects: Transparency (Ethics) in government; Government information; Community activists; Local government;

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Spy watching : intelligence accountability in the United States / by Johnson, Loch K.,1942-author.(CARDINAL)169074;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Democracy and intelligence -- Part I: The magnitude of the challenge -- Tracking an elusive behemoth -- Intelligence exceptionalism -- Part II: The evolution of intelligence accountability -- CDemocracy comes to the secret agencies -- The experiment in intelligence accountability begins -- Spy watching in an age of terror -- Part III: The patterns of intelligence accountability -- A shock theory of intelligence accountability -- The media and intelligence accountability -- Ostriches, cheerleaders, lemon-suckers, and guardians -- Part IV: The practice of intelligence accountability -- In the trenches: collection and analysis, covert action -- In the wilderness: coping with counterintelligence -- Part V: The future of intelligence accountability -- Intelligence accountability and the nation's spy chiefs -- The ongoing quest for liberty and security -- Epilogue: Intelligence in the early Trump administration -- Appendix A: The organization of the U.S. intelligence community, 2017 -- Appendix B: U.S. intelligence leadership, 1946-2017 -- Appendix C: The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980."All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty, but intelligence organizations have secret budgets, gather information surreptitiously around the world, and plan covert action against foreign regimes. Sometimes, they have even targeted the very citizens they were established to protect, as with the COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s and 1970s, carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against civil rights and antiwar activists. In this sense, democracy and intelligence have always been a poor match. Yet Americans live in an uncertain and threatening world filled with nuclear warheads, chemical and biological weapons, and terrorists intent on destruction. Without an intelligence apparatus scanning the globe to alert the United States to these threats, the planet would be an even more perilous place. In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services. Johnson explores the work of the famous Church Committee, a Senate panel that investigated America's espionage organizations in 1975 and established new protocol for supervising the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the nation's other sixteen secret services. Johnson explores why partisanship has crept into once-neutral intelligence operations, the effect of the 9/11 attacks on the expansion of spying, and the controversies related to CIA rendition and torture programs. He also discusses both the Edward Snowden case and the ongoing investigations into the Russian hack of the 2016 US election. Above all, Spy Watching seeks to find a sensible balance between the twin imperatives in a democracy of liberty and security. Johnson draws on scores of interviews with Directors of Central Intelligence and others in America's secret agencies, making this a uniquely authoritative account."--"Given the dangers in the world--from terrorism to pandemics--nations must have effective spy services; yet, to prevent the misuse of secret power, democracies must also ensure that their spies are well supervised. This book focuses on the obstacles encountered by America as it pursues more effective intelligence accountability"--

Subjects: Intelligence service; Government accountability; Transparency (Ethics) in government; Legislative oversight;

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What is transparency? / by Oliver, Richard W.,1946-(CARDINAL)278017;

Transparency : setting sights on a moving target -- The opacity spiral : defiance, disclosure, and destruction -- The transparency imperative -- Transparency : top down and bottom up! -- Watchdogs, whistleblowers, and the transparency police -- Transparency : guiding light for the globe -- Best practice : reaping transparency's rewards -- Transparency in action : strategy and execution.

Subjects: Business ethics.; Disclosure of information.; Communication in organizations.; Social responsibility of business.; Corporate governance.; Transparency (Ethics) in government.;

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On-line resources: https://digitization.ncpedia.org/digitization/request/request.php?tcn=10194907 -- Request online version;

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The declassification engine : what history reveals about America's top secrets / by Connelly, Matthew,1967-author.(CARDINAL)687331;

"A captivating study of US state secrecy that examines how officials use it to hoard power and prevent meaningful public oversight The United States was founded on the promise of a transparent government, but time and again we have abandoned the ideals ofour open republic. In recent history, we have permitted ourselves to engage in costly wars, opened ourselves to preventable attacks, and ceded unaccountable power to officials both elected and unelected. Secrecy may now be an integral policy to preserving the American way of life, but its true costs have gone unacknowledged for too long. Using the latest techniques in data science, historian Matthew Connelly analyzes the millions of state documents both accessible to the public and still under review tounearth not only what the government does not want us to know, but what it says about the very authority we bequeath to our leaders. By culling this research and carefully studying a series of pivotal moments in recent history from Pearl Harbor to drone strikes, Connelly sheds light on the drivers of state secrecy-especially consolidating power or hiding incompetence-and how the classification of documents has become untenable. What results is an astonishing study of power: of the greed that develops outof its possession, of the negligence that it protects, and of what we lose as citizens when it remains unchecked. A crucial examination of the self-defeating nature of secrecy and the dire state of our nation's archives, The Declassification Engine is a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving the past so that we may secure our future."--Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-502) and index.Pearl Harbor: The original secret -- The bomb: born secret -- Code making and code breaking: the secret of secrets -- The military-industrial complex: the dirty secret of civil-military relations -- Surveillance: other people's secrets -- Weird science: secrets that are stranger than fiction -- Following the money: trade secrets -- Spin: the flipside of secrecy -- There is no there there: the best kept secret -- Deleting the archive: the ultimate secret.

Subjects: Transparency (Ethics) in government; Government information; Public administration;

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Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General Government : report to the 2016 session of the 2015 General Assembly of North Carolina. by North Carolina.General Assembly.Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General Government,author.(CARDINAL)335529;

Subjects: North Carolina. General Assembly. Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General Government.; Administrative agencies; Transparency (Ethics) in government;

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Reining in the state : civil society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate eras / by Scott, Katherine A.(Katherine Anne);

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.Introduction -- "Recruiting an army" : Russ Wiggins demands transparency -- "What's going on in the Black community?" : Ramsey Clark investigates civil disorder -- "A communist behind every bush" : the Army spies on civilians -- Senator Sam, or, How liberals learned to stop worrying and love a southern segregationist -- It's "poppycock" : Congress challenges executive privilege -- An "effective servant of the public's right to know" : Representative Moorhead revises FOIA -- "Tempers change, times change, public attitudes change" : passing FISA -- Epilogue.Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon dramatically expanded the federal government's domestic security apparatus to cope with social unrest that rocked their administrations. By the mid-1970s, the Justice Department and Army maintained some 400 databanks containing nearly 200 million files on supposedly subversive individuals and organizations. Katherine Scott chronicles the subsequent public response to that government action: a determined citizens' movement to rein in the state. She details the efforts of a group of unheralded heroes who battled to reinvigorate judicial, legislative, and civic oversight of the executive branch in order to curtail and prevent future abuses by government agencies. Working closely with allies in Congress, they challenged state power, instituted open government policies, and protected individual privacy rights. Scott has assembled a cast of characters with compelling stories: Russ Wiggins of the Washington Post, who organized a citizens' campaign for government transparency; Representative John Moss, who called attention to government censorship; ACLU Director Aryeh Neier, who created a legal strategy for judicial oversight of executive branch security measures; Senator Sam Ervin, a civil libertarian who demanded greater oversight of the executive branch; and Morton Halperin, a former NSC staff member, who called attention to the gross constitutional violations of the nation's top security agencies. Rejecting the agendas and methods of both the radical left and the antigovernment right, these progressive reformers sought to bring the American state in line with democratic practice. When Army Captain Christopher Pyle blew the whistle on the U.S. Army's domestic surveillance program, reformers had evidence of illegal domestic spying that they had long suspected but could not confirm. Scott explores how his action united liberals and conservatives to end such abuses. She also assesses how Watergate prompted broad debate in the public sphere about the problems of executive power, the need for greater transparency in domestic security policy, and greater oversight of the activities of the FBI and CIA. These reformers' efforts bore fruit with the passage of a series of major legislative reforms, including the 1974 Freedom of Information Act revisions, the 1974 Privacy Act, the 1976 Government in Sunshine Act, and the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Now that government surveillance of citizens has returned to public consciousness in the wake of 9/11, Scott's stirring account reminds us that power still resides with the people. -- Publisher description.

Subjects: Executive power; Transparency (Ethics) in government; Separation of powers; Civil society;

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On-line resources: https://digitization.ncpedia.org/digitization/request/request.php?tcn=13074947 -- Suggest title for digitization;

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Filthy rich politicians : the swamp creatures, latte liberals, and ruling-class elites cashing in on America / by Lewis, Matt K.,author.; Ungar-Sargon, Batya,1981-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)891897;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index.Introduction -- The ruling class -- A rich history: Pre$idents from Washington to Biden -- Why the rich get elected -- Why the elected get rich -- All in the family: How politicians spread the wealth -- The lifestyle: Living large -- Latte liberals: Rich and privileged with influence -- Ivy League populists: Rich and privileged networks -- You can take it with you: The revolving door -- Don't eat the rich."Journalist Matt Lewis exposes the ludicrous nature of money in politics and offers readers a better path forward for keeping their elected leaders accountable to the people they are supposed to be representing. A lot has changed since the Founding Fathers first envisioned a country where elected leaders arrived in Washington, performed their civic duty as public servants, and returned home. Today's politicians are an unsavory lot-a hybrid of plutocrats and hypocrites. There are those who leveraged their riches to win their coveted elected positions, and there are those who leveraged their elected positions to grow incredibly wealthy-often while decrying the evils of 'income inequality.' This is the ruling class we see today. The financial disparity between our leaders and our neighbors is huge. Unfortunately, the ruling-class elites have a vested financial interest in refusing to promote the reforms so desperately needed to rebuild Americans' trust. And the question remains: Why are so many people in Congress so rich-and how did they get that way? To answer that question, we need to follow the money. In Filthy Rich Politicians, journalist Matt Lewis embarks on an investigative deep dive into the ridiculous state of modern American democracy-a system where the rich get elected and the elected get rich. Through examining the Latte Liberals, Ivy League Populists, Insider Traders, Trust-Fund Babies, and Swamp Creatures infesting Washington, Lewis shows with his trademark humor and wit how our so-called public servants are indulging in hypocrisy, taking advantage of the system, and eroding our trust in the institutions that once made America great. In order to preserve the American system, citizens should not believe the game is rigged. Achieving this level of trust will require common-sense reforms. And if Americans demand transparency and accountability from their elected leaders, Lewis believes that this trust can be restored." --

Subjects: Transparency (Ethics) in government; Elite (Social sciences); Rich people; Social networks;

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State of silence : the Espionage Act and the rise of America's secrecy regime / by Lebovic, Sam,1981-author.(CARDINAL)878133;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The fear of spies -- The speech crimes of Eugene Debs -- 1919, year of the bombs -- The creeping scope of the secrecy laws -- The Nazi spy who wasn't -- Red herrings, or, the Cold War spy games -- Missile gaps -- Papers from the Pentagon -- Long live the secrecy state -- Whistleblowers on the War on Terror -- Conclusion : goodbye to the Espionage Act?"The Espionage Act was passed in 1917 to prosecute spies and critics during World War I. And yet, after a century of piecemeal revisions, the Espionage Act still forms the basis of our national security architecture today - a tool that lets the government keep an untold amount of information secret, without ever justifying the need for that secrecy. In State of Silence, political historian Sam Lebovic uncovers the troubling history of the Espionage Act and the shaky foundations on which our security state was built. The Espionage Act began as a series of vague statutes. Over time and aided by interventions from the executive branch and the courts, it became the basis of a patchwork system for protecting state secrets. Early drafts of the Act gave the president the authority to stop the presses. That provision was struck down after public outcry over freedom of speech, but the resulting legal ambiguities left room for decades of distortion as lawmakers leveraged Cold War paranoia into ever-tightening security. The resulting system for classifying information, Lebovic points out, is absurdly cautious: nearly 80 million documents are classified each year, and the system costs the government more than $18 billion annually to maintain. Aside from being costly, this system is shrouded in secrecy, hiding information from citizens in a way that Lebovic argues is fundamentally antithetical to our democracy. When individuals do try to make this information public, they're punished for it. As Lebovic shows, prosecuting whistleblowers (instead of journalists) has been built into our national security system from the beginning. Far before Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, he shares with us the near-forgotten story of Colonel John Nickerson, the first whistleblower prosecuted under the Espionage Act in 1956--and a proud Army man who had no idea that his sharing of information could be considered illegal. Finally, Lebovic calls for broad and sweeping reform, proposing a new approach to securing state secrets, one that places the interests of the people first from the very beginning. Shedding new light on the bloated governmental security apparatus that's weighing our democracy down, State of Silence offers the definitive history of America's turn toward secrecy--and its staggering human costs"--

Subjects: United States.; Espionage; Secrecy; Official secrets; Disclosure of information; Whistle blowing; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.; Transparency (Ethics) in government; Secrecy.;

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Blowback : a warning to save democracy from the next Trump / by Taylor, Miles(Security expert),author.(CARDINAL)874770;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The faction -- The deputy -- The judge -- The assembly -- The shield -- The sword -- The citizen -- The angel."Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor--The Next Trump. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly "Anonymous" official is back with bombshell revelations and a sobering national forecast. Through interviews with dozens of ex-Trump aides and government leaders, Taylor predicts what could happen inside "Trump 2.0," the White House of a more competent and more formidable copycat."--

Subjects: Informational works.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Democracy; Radicalism; Fascism; Political stability; Transparency (Ethics) in government; Citizenship; Right-wing extremists;

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The road to 9/11 : wealth, empire, and the future of America / by Scott, Peter Dale.(CARDINAL)122178;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-403) and index.Nixon, Kissinger, and the decline of the public state -- The pivotal presidency : Ford, Rumsfeld, and Cheney -- Brzezinski, oil, and Afghanistan -- Carter's surrender to the Rockefellers on Iran -- Casey, the republican countersurprise, and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, 1980 -- Afghanistan and the origins of al Qaeda -- The Al-Kifah Center, al Qaeda, and the U.S. Government, 1988-98 -- The Pre-9/11 cover-up of Ali Mohamed and al Qaeda -- Al Qaeda, the U.S. establishment, and oil -- Parallel structures and plans for continuity of government -- The 9/11 Commission report and Vice President Cheney -- The 9/11 Commission report's and Cheney's deceptions about 9/11 -- Cheney, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and continuity of government.

Subjects: Transparency (Ethics) in government; Privacy, Right of; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Democracy; Elite (Social sciences); National security; Political corruption;

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