

Spy Watching
Intelligence Accountability in the United States
Author: Loch K. Johnson
Narrator: Norman Dietz
Unabridged: 31 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/07/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Political Science, American Government, Intelligence & Espionage
Synopsis
In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services. Johnson explores the work of the famous Church Committee, a Senate panel that investigated America's espionage organizations in 1975 and established new protocol for supervising the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the nation's other sixteen secret services. Johnson explores why partisanship has crept into once-neutral intelligence operations, the effect of the 9/11 attacks on the expansion of spying, and the controversies related to CIA rendition and torture programs. He also discusses both the Edward Snowden case and the ongoing investigations into the Russian hack of the 2016 U.S. election. Above all, Spy Watching seeks to find a sensible balance between the twin imperatives in a democracy of liberty and security. Johnson draws on scores of interviews with Directors of Central Intelligence and others in America's secret agencies, making this a uniquely authoritative account.