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A scathing portrait of contemporary executive power run amok, by the author of the original 1976 Church Committee report on executive abuse. "In thirty-four years, I have repeatedly seen an erosion of the powers and the ability of the president of the United States to do his job." Vice President Dick Cheney Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has elevated the flaws identified by the committee into first principles of government. Through a constellation of non-public laws and opaque, unaccountable institutions, the current administration has created a "secret presidency" run by classified presidential decisions and orders about national security. A hyperactive Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice is intent on eliminating checks on presidential power and testing that power's limits. Decisions are routinely executed at senior levels within the civilian administration without input from Congress or the federal courts, let alone our international allies. Secret NSA spying at home is the most recent of these. Harsh treatment of detai

Author

Frederick A O Schwarz; Aziz Z Huq; Brennan Center for Justice

Publisher

New York: New Press: Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595581174

Subjects

Law, Political Science