Whistleblowing nation : the history of national security disclosures and the cult of state secrecy

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gurman, Hannah, editor.

Mistry, Kaeten, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National sikkerhed .

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press 2020

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The twenty-first century witnessed a new age of whistleblowing in the United States. Disclosures by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and others have stoked heated public debates about the ethics of exposing institutional secrets, with roots in a longer history of state insiders revealing privileged information. Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines to consider political, legal, and cultural dimensions, Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present.The contributors explore the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation of state secrets that threaten the status quo, challenging reductive characterizations of whistleblowers as heroes or traitors. They examine the dynamics of state retaliation, political backlash, and civic contests over the legitimacy and significance of the exposure and the whistleblower. The volume considers the growing power of the executive branch and its consequences for First Amendment rights, the protection and prosecution of whistleblowers, and the rise of vast classification and censorship regimes within the national-security state. Featuring analyses from leading historians, literary scholars, legal experts, and political scientists, Whistleblowing Nation sheds new light on the tension of secrecy and transparency, security and civil liberties, and the politics of truth and falsehood.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. THE PARADOX OF NATIONAL SECURITY WHISTLEBLOWING: Locating and Framing a History of the Phenomenon

2. FROM CENSORSHIP TO CLASSIFICATION: The Evolution of the Espionage Act

3. THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Leonard B. Boudin, Civil Liberties, and the Legal Defense of Whistleblowing

4. CELEBRITY HERO: Daniel Ellsberg and the Forging of Whistleblower Masculinity

5. THE RISE AND FALL OF ANTI- IMPERIAL WHISTLEBLOWING IN THE LONG 1970S

6. WINTER SOLDIERS OF THE DARK SIDE: CIA Whistleblowers and National Security Dissent

7. FROM THE MUNDANE TO THE ABSURD: The Advent and Evolution of Prepublication Review

8. THE PUBLIC SPHERE HERO: Representations of Whistleblowing in U.S. Culture

9. CREATING UNCERTAINTY, CASTING DOUBT: U.S. Intelligence Leaks from Reform to Spyware for Sale

10. UNFIT TO PRINT: The Press and the Contragate Whistleblowers

11. THE CHALLENGE OF JOURNALISM AND THE TRUTH IN OUR TIMES: James Risen, Judith Miller, and National Security Reporting

CODA: Edward Snowden, National Security Whistleblowing, and Civil Disobedience

CONCLUSION

FURTHER READING

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-231-55068-5

OCLC:

1111638372