Responding to the Inspector General's Findings of Improper Use of National Security Letters by the FBI

Responding to the Inspector General's Findings of Improper Use of National Security Letters by the FBI
Author: Russell D. Feingold
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1437912567

Witnesses: Bob Barr, former Member of Congress, and Chmn., Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, Atlanta, GA; George Christian, Exec. Dir., Amer. Library Assoc., Library Connection, Inc., Windsor, CT; Suzanne E. Spaulding, Principal, Bingham Consulting Group, and of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Wash., D.C.; Peter P. Swire, C. William O¿Neill Prof. of Law, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State Univ., and Sr. Fellow, Center for Amer. Progress, Wash., D.C. Also includes Submissions for the Record.

The Accountability State

The Accountability State
Author: Nadia Hilliard
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0700623981

Public accountability is critical to a democracy. But as government becomes ever more complex, with bureaucracy growing ever deeper and wider, how can these multiplying numbers of unelected bureaucrats be held accountable? The answer, more often than not, comes in the form of inspectors general, monitors largely independent of the management of the agencies to which they are attached. How, and whether, this system works in America is what Nadia Hilliard investigates in The Accountability State. Exploring the significance of our current collective obsession with accountability, her book helpfully shifts the issue from the technical domain of public administration to the context of American political development. Inspectors general, though longtime fixtures of government and the military, first came into prominence in the United States in the 1970s in the wake of evidence of wrongdoing in the Nixon administration. Their number and importance has only increased in tandem with concerns about abuses of power and simple inefficiency in expanding government agencies. Some of the IGs Hilliard examines serve agencies chiefly vulnerable to fraud and waste, while others, such as national security IGs, monitor the management of potentially rights-threatening activities. By some conventional measures, IGs are largely successful, whether in savings, prosecutions, suspensions, disbarments, or exposure of legally or ethically questionable activities. However, her work reveals that these measures fail to do justice to the range of effects that IGs can have on American democracy, and offers a new framework with which to evaluate and understand them. Within her larger study, Hilliard looks specifically at inspectors general in the US Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security and asks why their effectiveness varies as much as it does, with the IGs at Justice and Homeland Security proving far more successful than the IG at State.

Misuse of Patriot Act Powers

Misuse of Patriot Act Powers
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher: Internal Revenue Service
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Packaged in bulk for tax preparers. For use in preparing 2005 tax returns."

Case Studies in Library and Information Science Ethics

Case Studies in Library and Information Science Ethics
Author: Elizabeth A. Buchanan
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0786453141

This valuable book, written specifically for library and information science professionals, presents 125 case studies that combine theories of ethics and librarianship with practical, real-life scenarios. After an introduction to ethics in library and information science, chapters are devoted to ethical issues in five categories: intellectual freedom, privacy, intellectual property, professional ethics, and intercultural information ethics. Each chapter has a theoretical introduction to the issue under consideration followed by 25 case studies, each of which includes its own set of discussion questions. Perfectly suited to classroom use, these case studies help bridge the complicated gap between students, academics, and practitioners in the field by promoting critical thinking and responsible action. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.