Nation of Secrets The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life

Name: Nation of Secrets The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life
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ISBN: 9781400079780

ISBN-10: 1400079780

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Authors: Ted Gup

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At work, at the doctor’s office, on campus, in your car, your right to know has been replaced by someone else’s right to keep a secret. U.S. judges allow businesses to make secret settlement agreements that keep products with life-threatening defects on the market. Intelligence agencies use an ever-widening array of classification schemes as weapons in their turf wars with rival bureaucracies. Universities use obscure readings of federal statutes to keep victims of rape and assault from learning how their attackers were punished. The press offers anonymity to its government contacts, freeing them from accountability, robbing readers of transparency, and, sometimes, shattering innocent…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Ted Gup is a legendary investigative reporter who worked under Bob Woodward at theWashington Post,and later atTime.He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the George Polk Award and the Worth Bingham Prize. Gup is a professor of journalism at Case Western Reserve University. He lives in Pepper Pike, Ohio. From the Hardcover edition.




Silent Encroachments



Case Study: Inescapable Secrecy


National Insecurity, Part I: A Secrecy Born of Fear, Not Reason



Case Study: A Secret Hell


National Insecurity, Part II: Secrecy Means Not Having to Say You're Sorry



Case Study: Blacked Out: A Secret the CIA Won't Release


Secret History



Case Study: He Who Must Not Be Named


Secrecy and the Press



Case Study: A Crime of Secrecy?


Secrets and the University



Case Study: A Case Unsealed


Secret Courts



Case Study: The Chambers Effect


Sounding the Tocsin


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Books and Studies


Index