Presidential Commissions and National Security : : The Politics of Damage Control / / 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 wat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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