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Top Secret America (Enhanced Edition): The Rise Of The New American Security State (2011)

by Dana Priest(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0316198781 (ISBN13: 9780316198783)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: Nothing really new here. Although I agree that the need for security has created opportunities for abuse, I find it hard to accept the ideas that national security cannot be based on secrecy. It is also difficult to accept this idea that foreign policy and foreign relationships should be based on openness; the demands of realpolitik suggest otherwise. It would be naive to deal openly where everyone else (e.g., Russia and China) is playing by the old rules of diplomacy (i.e., the continuation of war by other means).
review 2: After 9/11 Washington went nuts trying to start new agencies, and over arm ever aspect of government. The book details the billions of dollars spent on things we didn't need and ways that the government turned that concern over foreign te... morerrorism against it's own people. We now have drones flying over the US, police who evict people wearing full riot gear with automatic weapons, and more data collection on Americans than ever before. 1984 is here. less

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