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Schwarz, Frederick A. O. (Frederick August Otto), 1935- author.

Title Democracy in the dark : the seduction of government secrecy / Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.

Publication Info.

New York : New Press, The, [2015]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction	342.73 SCHWARZ	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	342.73 SCH95	Check Shelf

Description	x, 350 pages ; 25 cm
Summary	"From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to NSA's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this new book, Fritz Schwarz, who was chief counsel to the U.S. Church Committee on Intelligence- which uncovered CIA plots to assassinate world leaders, including Fidel Castro's exploding cigar- uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first Atomic bomb, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to Iran Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	Freedom of information -- United States.
	Official secrets -- United States.
	Intelligence service -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security.
	United States.
ISBN	9781620970515 (hardback)
	1620970511 (hardback)
	9781620970522 (e-book)

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