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By Athan Theoharis
Athan Theoharis, lengthy a revered authority on surveillance and secrecy, demonstrated his acceptance for meticulous scholarship together with his paintings at the loyalty safeguard software built less than Truman and McCarthy. In Abuse of strength, Theoharis maintains his research of U.S. govt surveillance and historicizes the 11th of September response.
Criticizing the U.S. government's mystery actions and regulations in periods of "unprecedented crisis," he recounts how presidents and FBI officers exploited matters approximately foreign-based inner safety threats.
Drawing on info sequestered until eventually lately in FBI files, Theoharis indicates how those mystery actions on this planet struggle II and chilly warfare eras improved FBI surveillance powers and, within the strategy, eroded civil liberties with out considerably advancing valid safeguard interests.
Passionately argued, this well timed e-book speaks to the prices and outcomes of still-secret post-9/11 surveillance courses and counterintelligence disasters. eventually, Abuse of strength makes the case that the abusive surveillance rules of the chilly conflict years have been repeated within the government's responses to the September eleven attacks.
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29 The FBI Executives Conference, however, never formally considered Baumgardner’s recommendation. 30 Despite its long tenure, the FBI’s American Legion Contact Program furthered no legitimate security interest. Its sole value was to increase the accumulation of information about liberal and radical political activities and to enhance the FBI’s reputation with this conservative veterans’ organization. Indeed, senior FBI officials, when endorsing its continuance, cited only that it cemented a favorable relationship with this powerful veterans’ organization and at the same time enhanced the monitoring of suspect radical activities.
Congress’s rescission of Title II, Hoover further advised Mitchell, “does not limit the FBI’s authority and responsibility to keep and maintain administrative records, including various indices, which may be necessary to” fulfilling the FBI’s “responsibility and authority” to investigate subversive activities. Hoover asked whether Mitchell concurred with his “opinion that the repeal of the Emergency Detention Act does not prohibit or limit the FBI’s authority to keep and maintain . . ”53 Attorney General Mitchell’s authorization of an Administrative Index might have violated the spirit and intent of Congress’s action when rescinding Title II of the Internal Security Act in 1971 (and, in effect, repeated Hoover’s 1943 renaming of the Custodial Detention Index as the Security Index).
S. military involvement in World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 only slightly altered this hostile political climate. In a renewed attempt to exploit this new political setting, on April 23, 1942, Congressman Celler introduced another bill to legalize wiretapping. ” The report accompanying his proposed bill extolled the importance of wiretaps as a counterespionage tool and dismissed as unwarranted criticisms that individual rights would be affected. 15 Celler’s 1942 initiative once again failed.