Preface
List of Figures
Introduction: Democracy and Intelligence
PART I: THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CHALLENGE
Chapter One: Tracking an Elusive Behemoth
Chapter Two: Intelligence Exceptionalism
PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter Three: Democracy Comes to the Secret Agencies
Chapter Four: The Experiment in Intelligence Accountability
Begins
Chapter Five: Spy Watching in an Age of Terror
PART III: THE PATTERNS OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter Six: A Shock Theory of Intelligence Accountability
Chapter Seven: The Media and Intelligence Accountability
Chapter Eight: Ostriches, Cheerleaders, Lemon-Suckers, and
Guardians
PART IV: THE PRACTICE OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter Nine: In the Trenches: Collection-and-Analysis and Covert
Action
Chapter Ten: In the Wilderness: Coping with Counterintelligence
PART V: THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter Eleven: Intelligence Accountability and the Nation's Spy
Chiefs
Chapter Twelve: The Ongoing Quest for Liberty and Security
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Codenames
Appendix A: The U.S. Intelligence Community, 2016
Appendix B: U.S. Intelligence Leadership, 1947-2016
Appendix C: The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980
Bibliography
Loch K. Johnson is one of America's leading experts on the nation's
intelligence organizations. He is the Regents Professor of Public
and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and served
as staff director of the Senate Committee on Intelligence, as well
as assistant to the chairman of the Aspin-Brown Commission on
Intelligence. Johnson is the author of America's Secret Power and
The Threat on the Horizon, both
published by Oxford University Press.
"Johnson offers a necessary and encyclopedic account of
intelligence oversight...bring[ing] a wealth of knowledge to this
ambitious project... Spy Watching will surely come to be seen as an
essential part of the literature on intelligence administration in
the US."--CHOICE
"In this insightful examination of America's struggle to balance
liberty and security, Johnson... writes from personal experience
and extensive scholarship, so readers will encounter a great deal
of information, much of it unsettling... [A] thoughtful, not
terribly optimistic analysis of the perpetual tension between
secret services and liberal democracy."--Kirkus
"This is a learned, mighty and magisterial book."--Professional
Security Magazine
"With his experience as a congressional staffer involved in the
investigation of abuses by the intelligence community and a
distinguished career as a scholar of intelligence issues, Johnson
brings a wealth of knowledge to this ambitious project... Spy
Watching will surely come to be seen as an essential part of the
literature on intelligence administration in the US."--CHOICE
Reviews
". . . . a superb, beautifully written book, teeming with eminently
quotable passages and erudition . . . Johnson calls for greater
public understanding of the value of intelligence accountability, a
laudable ambition that academics can play a part on helping to
achieve. His book is a first step in the right direction . . . .
Spy Watching is history writing of the first rank that demands time
to mine its treasures and to absorb fully the important
issues it raises."--Christopher R. Moran, Intelligence and National
Security
"Spy Watching is an impressive, even encyclopedic, review of
America's experience regulating its large, powerful, and
compulsively secretive intelligence agencies... Johnson is
eminently qualified to undertake this study-a highly-regarded
professor, author, journal editor, and icon in the small but
growing academic discipline of intelligence studies... Spy Watching
is a valuable history and comprehensive study of America's ongoing
experiment
with democratic oversight of its essential, but imperfect,
intelligence enterprise."--Lawfare Blog
"[A] deeply informed study of political oversight of US
intelligence services... [Spy Watching] deserves close attention,
because of the personal experience that underpins [Johnson's]
judgments, together with their evenhandedness and common sense. He
considers the past only to address the future: How can intelligence
services that have been granted unprecedented powers since
President George W. Bush launched his ill-named War on Terror be
subjected to
democratic scrutiny? How can the loss of public trust be restored?
How can citizens be taught to recognize that the US, like all
nations, possesses secrets that must be preserved for the common
good; that
absolute openness on the part of government and its institutions is
the enemy of national security?"
--Max Hastings, New York Review of Books
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