UID:
almahu_9949707689102882
Format:
1 online resource (456 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781003821212
Series Statement:
Routledge New Intelligence Studies
Note:
Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Oversight, democracy, and control: Situating our transdisciplinary dialogue -- From scandals to oversight? Unpacking the practical limits of really existing intelligence oversight -- Presentation of the book's chapters -- Notes -- References -- 1 From radical contention to deference: A sociogenesis of intelligence oversight in the United States (1967-1981) -- Introduction -- Facing the New Left: The expansion of intelligence powers -- Intelligence as a "libertarian mode of repression" -- Expanding and rationalising surveillance -- Scandals and disentanglement: The intelligence field faces radical oversight -- Reactivating demands for academic autonomy -- Cross-field coalitions scandalising intelligence -- CounterSpy: the radical campaign of former intelligence insiders -- The Church Committee and its aftermath: Fomenting consensus -- Congress getting serious about intelligence oversight -- A tale of two investigations -- Ensuing reforms: the foreclosure of democratic control over intelligence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Transformations of the transnational field of secret services: The reasons for a systemic crisis of legitimacy? -- Introduction -- A problem of legitimacy at the international scale -- Reframing the problem outside intelligence studies, why? And how? -- Widening, deepening, entanglement, and diffraction of the boundaries of the transnational field of secret violence in democracies -- Looking at the recent past: what went wrong? Extraordinary rendition and torture, large-scale intrusive digital surveillance, and worldwide selling of spying tools.
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Factors of transformation: Coalition of services, preventive-predictive ideology, digital capacities, privatisation, and marketisation -- A dynamic of expansion with centrifugal effects? Assessment of the limits and trajectories at work, mutual reinforcement, de-responsibilisation of core actors, and rise of the periphery -- Enlargement, diversification, widening, and deepening implications -- Diffraction and centrifugal effects in interstitial spaces -- The intrusion of the question of legitimacy at the transnational scale: unease, denial, and hidden transcripts -- A sense of unease and a crisis of systemic legitimacy? -- Denying the problem of transnational surveillance and the role of the third-party rule -- Hidden transcripts -- regaining a sense of limits with regard to the centrifugal dynamics to be taken into account -- Notes -- References -- 3 The code of silence: Transnational autonomy and oversight of signals intelligence -- Introduction -- Genesis: The transnational field of Signals Intelligence -- Capital and symbolic power -- Centralisation of power through transnational dynamics -- Actors and modes of cooperation -- Autonomy: The foreign neverland and the code of silence -- The domestic-foreign distinction as a doxa of mass surveillance -- Third Party Rule - The code of silence -- Heteronomy: Oversight and the production of orthodoxy -- Intelligence oversight - a heteronomous force? -- Breaking the silence of the doxa -- Contesting and normalising the code of silence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 From abuse to trust and back again: Intelligence scandals and the quest for oversight -- Introduction -- Intelligence oversight, abuse, and trust -- Problematising abuse: Hewitt and Harman v the UK -- Invoking trust: The post-Snowden landscape and UK surveillance legislative struggle -- Conclusion: Abuse, trust, and democracy.
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Notes -- References -- 5 An analysis of post-Snowden civil society accountability -- Introduction -- Journalism: Controlling or normalizing intelligence scandals? -- Investigative journalism -- General news -- Opinion pieces -- Activism -- NGOs: From campaigns to lobbying and strategic litigation -- The raise of the "think tank paradigm" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Transversal intelligence oversight in the United States: Squaring the circle? -- Introduction -- Introducing transversal oversight and methodological considerations -- Navigating Pandora's box of intelligence oversight -- A mapping of US intelligence oversight -- The rule of law and congressional oversight dilemmas -- Judicial oversight practices and challenges -- Understanding intelligence stakeholders, institutions, and practices -- Contemporary intelligence oversight struggles in the US context -- The case of Abu Zubaydah and other Guantanamo detainees -- Mueller report as an example of failed intelligence sharing despite the law -- Concluding remarks and road ahead -- Notes -- References -- 7 The anatomy of political impunity in New Zealand -- Introduction -- Intelligence scandal as political opportunity -- Using oversight measures to turn a blind eye -- Public ignorance as a guarantor of impunity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Liberty, equality, and counter-terrorism in France -- Note -- 9 Intelligence oversight collaboration in Europe -- Notes -- 10 Torture and security service mass surveillance -- Introduction -- The path to the optional protocol to the convention against torture -- The realisation of the optional protocol gaining momentum in a changed environment -- The OPCAT framework -- Thinking outside the box: The SPT and NPMs -- Implementing torture prevention obligations at the national level.
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Adjusting to State Diversity without Sacrificing Effectiveness -- Cooperation, supervision, and consultation - the SPT and NPMs -- A model for the right to privacy? -- Notes -- References -- Books -- Journal and newspaper articles -- Websites and newspapers -- International judgments, laws, reports, and speeches -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bigo, Didier Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 ISBN 9781032406558
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
