Democracy Declassified: The Secrecy Dilemma in National Security
Democracy Declassified tackles an enduring question of particular current importance: How do democratic governments balance the need for foreign policy secrecy with accountability to the public? Secrecy has national security uses, but it can also be abused. Democracy Declassified highlights and then explores how formal oversight institutions can allow for immediate secrecy, while curtailing executive abuses and corrosive public skepticism.