MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

LEADER: 02594nam a2200361 a 4500
001 011750063-1
005 20090804135525.0
008 080522s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2008929466
020 $a9781933909332 (alk. paper)
020 $a1933909331
035 0 $aocn154657267
035 0 $aocn262751878
040 $aNPUBL$cNPUBL$dNPUBL$dMNJ$dCUY$dOCLCQ$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aHV8144.F43$bT87 2008
082 00 $a363.250973$222
100 1 $aTurchie, Terry D.
245 10 $aHomeland insecurity :$bhow Washington politicians have made America less safe /$cTerry D. Turchie, Kathleen M. Puckett.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aPalisades, N.Y. :$bHistory Pub. Co.,$cc2008.
300 $axiii, 313 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index.
505 0 $aAddicted to power : why politicians do what they do -- Richard M. Nixon : from Watergate to 9/11 -- Frank Church : paving the road to 9/11 -- Jamie Gorelick : FISA and the wall -- Don Edwards : of terrorists, spies, and libraries -- All Reagan's men : Iran contra -- Patrick Leahy and Charles Grassley : a hands-on approach to the FBI -- Investigating friends of politicians : the Archer Daniels Midland case -- Bill Clinton : too little, too late --- Al Gore : waltzing with Chinese intelligence -- Richard Shelby : leaking with impunity -- George W. Bush : groupthink -- Dick Cheney : absolute power --- Dennis Hastert and Nancy Pelosi : the House protects its own -- The friends of Jack Abramoff : the money fix --- Outsourcing the war on terror : the business of security --- The intelligence game : torture and other tactics -- Realities of intelligence : the FBI and the CIA -- Political independence and the rule of law : the real power behind our republic.
520 $aThe authors "sound the alarm in this book, to bring to light the critical damage that over three decades of the exercise of unfettered political power has had on the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- the FBI -- in ensuring transparency in government, the pre-eminence of the rule of law, and the guardianship of civil liberties. It all began with Watergate."--P. vii-viii.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bFederal Bureau of Investigation$xHistory.
650 0 $aInternal security$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical corruption$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
700 1 $aPuckett, Kathleen M.
988 $a20081121
906 $0OCLC