Presidential Commissions and National Security : : The Politics of Damage Control / / Kenneth Kitts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kitts, Kenneth ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Presidents and the Blue-Ribbon Option --; 2 The Politics of Infamy: The Roberts Commission and Pearl Harbor --; 3 The Politics of Spying: The Rockefeller Commission and the CIA --; 4 The Politics of Armageddon: The Scowcroft Commission and the MX Missile --; 5 The Politics of Scandal: The Tower Commission and Iran-Contra --; 6 The Politics of Terror: Tom Kean and the 9/11 Commission --; 7 Conclusion: The Politics of Damage Control --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626374768; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626374768
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kenneth Kitts.

Kenneth Kitts offers entry into the highly political, behind-closed-doors world of blue-ribbon investigative commissions convened in the aftermath of national security crises. Ranging from Pearl Harbor to the September 11 terrorist attacks, Kitts takes the reader into the "backroom" to watch as presidents, their advisers, and commission members confront an armory of pressures. With rich detail and accounts of political intrigue, he reveals just how and when presidents reach for the blue-ribbon option to try to defuse crises, deflect criticism, and maintain control of national security policy and how presidential expectations are sometimes unmet, as commissions issue damning reports with unforeseen and explosive consequences.