DEMOCRACY IN THE DARK: THE SEDUCTION OF GOVERNMENT SECRECY

Book ID/图书代码： 12861015B78436

English Summary/英文概要： From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the U.S. Church Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King to commit suicide; the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA’s thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States—uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: how much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden.

Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz’s Unchecked and Unbalanced, co-written with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch—a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 从迪克•切尼的大尺寸安全到国家安全局的大量情报收集，保密往往是美国政府的一贯做法，而不是宪法的理想想法。在这本重要的新书中，小弗雷德里克A.O.施瓦茨，美国教会情报委员会的首席顾问—在书中揭露了美国联邦调查局逼马丁•路德•金自杀的事; 中情局征募黑手党入伍试图杀死菲德尔•卡斯特罗;NSA未来30年的计划是得到从美国发出的所有电报的复印件—书中使用的例子，范围从第一颗原子弹的投掷，古巴导弹危机到伊朗叛乱和911事件，来突出一个核心问题：好的国家治理需要多少机密信息呢？施瓦茨认为，尽管掌握信息是必要的，但政府成为保密文化的牺牲品，其结果不仅危害民主，也将与民主对立的。这段历史为最近的切尔西•曼宁事件到爱德华•斯诺登事件提供了背景。

《黑暗中的民主》是施瓦茨的《限制与不平衡》一书的自然伴侣，阿兹•贺琪联合著作，探究了行政部门的力量—这力量依靠和来源于机密的使用。（YYW）

Awards/获奖情况：“施瓦茨是众多传播美国的全部意义言论的爱国主义者之一，如果对法治国家的承诺可以解开，那么这脆弱的代议民主制的经验的要领将会丢失。”—鲍勃•赫伯特，《纽约时报》

"Schwarz is among the many quiet patriots who are spreading the word that the very meaning of the United States, the whole point of this fragile experiment in representative democracy, will be lost if the nation’s ironclad commitment to the rule of law is allowed to unravel."—Bob Herbert, The New York Times

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