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The war on leakers : national security and American democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden
- Title
- The war on leakers : national security and American democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden / Lloyd C. Gardner.
- Author
- Gardner, Lloyd C., 1934-
- Publication
- New York : The New Press, 2016.
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- Description
- pages cm
- Summary
- "Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii-but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly but steadily across the Cold War, Vietnam, the fall of Communism, and into the present. Ripped from today's headlines, Lloyd C. Gardner's latest book takes a deep dive into the previously unexamined history of national security leakers. The War on Leakers joins the growing debate over surveillance and the national security state, bringing to bear the unique perspective of one our most respected diplomatic historians. Gardner examines how national security leaks have been grappled with over nearly five decades, what the relationship of "leaking" has been to the exercise of American power during and after the Cold War, and the implications of all this for how we should think about the role of leakers and democracy. Gardner's eye-opening new history asks us to consider why America has invested so much of its resources, technology, and credibility in a system that all but cries out for loyal Americans to leak its secrets"--
- Subjects
- Government information > United States
- Electronic surveillance > United States
- HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
- National security > United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
- Democracy > United States
- Leaks (Disclosure of information) > United States
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Official secrets > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-1554
- ISBN
- 9781620970638
- 1620970635
- LCCN
- 2015027800
- OCLC
- 2015027800
- Author
- Gardner, Lloyd C., 1934-
- Title
- The war on leakers : national security and American democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden / Lloyd C. Gardner.
- Publisher
- New York : The New Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-1554