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Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions"--the President, Congress, and the courts. Their roles, he argues, have become largely illusory. Presidential control is now nominal, congressional oversight is dysfunctional, and judicial review is negligible. This book details the dramatic shift in power that has occurred from the Madisonian institutions to a concealed "Trumanite network"--the several hundred managers of the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation and who have come to operate largely immune from constitutional and electoral restraints. Reform efforts face daunting obstacles. Remedies within this new system of "double government" require the hollowed-out Madisonian institutions to exercise the very power that they lack. Meanwhile, reform initiatives from without confront the same pervasive political ignorance within the polity that has given rise to this duality. This book sounds a powerful warning about the need to resolve this dilemma--and the mortal threat posed to accountability, democracy, and personal freedom if double government persists.
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    0190206446
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  5. Publication date
    October 8, 2014
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    English
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    257 pages
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  • Moose in NZ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lucid, useful, and interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2014
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    Until this book I'd had a hard time finding titles covering the topic that didn't fall into two categories (neither of which interest me), firstly, the political opposition taking the opportunity to serve up some criticism courtesy of Snowden and others sources, and secondly, conspiracy nuts.
    Glennon has done a measured job with his book. Without getting too dry it has an almost scholarly feel with its strong evidential base and his care in not drawing too long a conclusion from the available evidence (a failing of many others in the area). He provides a very useful and memorable model for interpreting and questioning what is before us. I'd go as far as to call the model compelling, and at that point suggest that this may reflect my satisfaction with the work. Here in NZ we have had sweeping law changes in the last two years designed to bring us into line with the US - these were accomplished largely without public noise (we tend to a disgraceful degree of civic apathy here) and Glennon's model better frames those changes than any other I'm aware of.
    If you're a so-called "prepper"or anyone of similar thinking, this book's probably not for you. However, if you want an interesting and illuminating way of interpreting what you see and hear, and a sound option for working through what the events mean - this could be just the ticket.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Frightening
    Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2023
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    Very well written and convincing portrait of present day America. I particularly like that the author does not conclude with any pat, Pollyanna solutions to the current crisis of democracy but rather clearly and convincingly articulates that we have passed the point of return towards a totalitarian security state. Sobering thought.
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  • R. Heuermann
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2023
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    A very good, realistic explanation for the staying power of out SEVENTTEN "intelligence" agencies. Don't forget "The Devil's Chessboard", a really good explanation of the start.
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  • tularosa
    4.0 out of 5 stars An Eye-Opener for an Engaged Citizenry !!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2014
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    It is about time that academia turns its attention to a huge problem in our federal government which has arisen since the end of World War II: namely, a national security establishment which conducts U.S. military and intelligence operations outside the Constitutional framework and free of the accountability otherwise imposed by law. The President has become a mere pronouncer of policies in foreign affairs and national security matters, fashioned by the CIA and the Pentagon, with no meaningful Congressional oversight or involvement of our courts.

    Prof. Glennon is to be commended for having the intestinal fortitude to write this book and subjecting himself to the inevitable criticism which will follow from the defenders of the status quo.

    However, I can only give the book four stars, as it has a serious flaw in my opinion. The author subscribes to a benign explanation for the rise in double government, and unjustly ignores the role of the armaments industry and defense contractors in the explosive growth of the national security state. The motivation is money, and the systematic looting of the U.S. Treasury to benefit private industry, which may ultimately prove the undoing of our democracy.

    President Eisenhower, in his now famous farewell address in 1960, warned us all against the gaining of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial establishment. He saw the dangers posed by policies being formulated and operations being conducted by our military and intelligence agencies when the primary benefits flowed to those with an economic stake in the outcomes, rather than acting in the best interests of our citizenry.

    Anyone interested in learning how we have gotten to this sad stage, with no real prospects for change from one administration to the next, should read this book.
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  • Robin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well written
    Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2024
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    Easy read
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  • Geary Foertsch
    3.0 out of 5 stars I just finished the book and enjoyed Mr. Glennon's argument and multiple facts to support ...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2017
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    I just finished the book and enjoyed Mr. Glennon's argument and multiple facts to support it. It is a very distressing story. My gripe, though, is when Mr. Glennon uses the well known Joseph Welch charge ("have you no decency, sir?") to Senator Joe McCarthy, in the 1954 Army vs McCarthy hearings. as an example of Americans, "who in their decency saw authoritarian demagoguery for what it was -and rejected it."
    Mr. Glennon gets it wrong. Here's the real story:
    Welch's words played well with TV viewers and the press (to this day) in damaging McCarthy but it was just phony courtroom drama. Welch was questioning a witness (McCarthy asst. Roy Cohn) and was repeatedly badgering (making fun) asking Cohn: "...whenever you know about a subversive or a Communist or a spy please hurry (and tell somebody)." Then, McCarthy challenged Welch that he had a Communist (Fred Fisher) working in his law firm. That prompted the "have you no sense of decency, sir" response as if McCarthy unfairly outed an innocent Fisher to the public.The press ate it up.
    But, in fact, Welch had previously outed his assistant weeks earlier as reported in a New York Times article (with picture), April 16,1954: "Mr. Welch...relieved...Fred Fisher...because of admitted previous membership in the Nat'l Lawyers Guild, which has been listed by Herb Brownell, Jr. the Attorney General as a Communist front organization." (see page 568 of "Blacklisted by History" by M. Stanton Evans).
    Welch told a lawyerly lie and it has been repeatedly told to this day as Mr. Glennon and other contemporary authors have done.
    It's time to put the record straight. And, it gives this reader, less titled than the author, pause. If this obvious error got through the author, fact checkers editors and into the book, how many others are there? That's why I gave it only 3 stars.
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  • E. Happel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wichtige Analyse
    Reviewed in Germany on January 16, 2022
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    Die Studie zeigt, dass die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA von einem quasi unkündbaren Personalkartell gesteuert wird, das einerseits politische Kontinuität über die Amtswechsel von Präsidenten hinaus sicherstellt, andererseits aber in Group-Think verharrt und Politiken perpetuiert, die der internationalen Sicherheit und den wohlverstandenen Interessen der USA schaden.
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  • Dennis Brown
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2018
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    Interesting hypothesis.
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  • Dan Earle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative.
    Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2016
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    So much for voting for a progressive political agenda. Between corporations, national security interests and the oligarchy any real reform is very elusive. The book makes it very clear that the "system" is stacked and there are few politicians that are willing or able to take it on.
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