Who's Watching the Spies?: Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability

The assembled authors, each well known in the international community of national security scholars, bring together in one volume the rich experience of three decades of experimentation in intelligence accountability. Using a structured approach, they examine the strengths and weaknesses of the intelligence systems of Argentina, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. While these democracies have experimented with methods to make intelligence more accountable, they all have different political systems, political cultures, legal systems, and democratic traditions, thereby presenting an exceptional opportunity to examine how intelligence accountability evolves under disparate circumstances. The contributors draw together the best practices into a framework for successful approaches to intelligence accountability, including a prescription for a model law.

Experts from around the globe look at protecting secrets while maintaining liberties

Loch K. Johnson, Ph.D., is the Regents Professor of political science at the University of Georgia. He lives in Athens, Georgia.

Hans Born, Ph.D., is a fellow at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces and publishes frequently on democracy and security issues. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ian Leigh, L.L.M., is a professor of law and the co-director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Durham. He lives in Durham, England.