National Security Lies [Kietas viršelis]

Tung Yin has deftly cataloged a taxonomy of national security lies in support of his argument that the corrosive impacts of presidential lies and misrepresentations may be managed and even minimized by requiring that the misstatements be reported in writing to select members of Congress within a reasonable time. Yin borrows from the law of covert action while he fairly characterizes a series of presidential lies as sometimes essential and at other times arguably harmful to our national security. -- William C. Banks, Syracuse University, USA In this provocative new book, Tung Yin explains why Jack Nicholson may have been right in A Few Good Men after all: You cant handle the truth! Sometimes, Yin explains, it may be defensible for the government to conceal truths about national security from the public. Yin addresses the fundamental tension between the protection of national security and government transparency, and proposes legal and political mechanisms to police the line between the two. This will be a welcome addition to the libraries of all those who work, think, and write in the field of national security. -- John Yoo, University of California at Berkeley, USA