Availability of Information from Federal Departments and Agencies: Panel discussion with editors et al
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 86
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Subcommittee on Government Information
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 1906
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 958
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 120
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 670
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine A. Scott
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 070061897X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresidents 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.
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 664
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kevin Walby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 042979486X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, journalism and education. Comparing the use of FOI in research design across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa, it provides readers with resources to carry out FOI requests and considers the influence such requests can have on debates within multiple disciplines. In addition to exploring how scholars can use FOI disclosures in conjunction with interview data, archival data and other datasets, this collection explains how researchers can systematically analyse FOI disclosures. Considering the challenges and dilemmas in using FOI processes in research, it examines the reasons why many scholars continue to rely on more easily accessible data, when much of the real work of governance, the more clandestine but consequential decisions and policy moves made by government officials, can only be accessed using FOI requests.
Author: Price
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 1452912459
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 940
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