Screening the System: Exposing Security Clearance Dangers - Couverture rigide

Deutscher, Martha Louise

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1612348130 ISBN 13 : 9781612348131

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2017

Synopsis

The Personnel Security Clearance System--the process by which the federal government incorporates individuals into secret national-security work--is flawed. After twenty-three years of federal service, Martha Louise Deutscher explores the current system and the amount of power afforded to the state in contrast to that afforded to those who serve it.

Deutscher's timely examination of the U.S. screening system shows how security clearance practices, including everything from background checks and fingerprinting to urinalysis and the polygraph, shape and transform those individuals who are subject to them. By bringing participants' testimonies to light, Deutscher looks at the efficacy of various practices while extracting revealing cultural insights into the way we think about privacy, national security, patriotism, and the state.

In addition to exposing the stark realities of a system that is in critical need of rethinking, Screening the System provides recommendations for a more effective method that will be of interest to military and government professionals as well as policymakers and planners who work in support of U.S. national security.

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À propos de l?auteur

Martha Louise Deutscher retired in 2013 after twenty-three years of federal service. During her tenure at the U.S. Department of Defense, Deutscher served as the chief of public and legislative affairs for the Defense Security Service, the Defense Education Activity, and the Business Transformation Agency. In her work with the U.S. Information Agency, Deutscher produced live broadcasts with Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, and other international policy experts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1612348130
• ISBN 13: 9781612348131
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible