{"product_id":"9780192847966-a-question-of-standing-the-history-of-the-cia","title":"A Question Of Standing The History Of The Cia","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CI a. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced judgements that avoid both celebration and condemnation of the CI a. The mission of the CI a derived from U - 1 in World War I more than from World War II's OSS has always been intelligence. Seventy - five years ago in the year of its creation the National Security Act gave the agency uniquely in world history up to that point a democratic mandate to pursue that mission of intelligence. It gave the CI a a special standing in the conduct of US foreign relations. That standing diminished when successive American presidents ordered the CI a to exceed its original mission. When they tasked the agency secretly to overthrow democratic governments the United States lost its international standing and its command of a majority in the United Nations General Assembly. Such dubious operations even the government's embrace of assassination and torture did not diminish the standing of the CI a in US public opinion. However domestic interventions did. CI a spying on domestic protesters led to tighter congressional oversight from the 1970s on. The chapters in A Question of Standing offer a balanced narrative and perspective on recognizable episodes in the CI a's history. They include the Bay of Pigs invasion the War on Terror 9\/11, the weapons of mass destruction deception the Iran estimate of 2007, the assassination of Osama bin Laden and Fake News. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 diminished the CI a and is construed as having been the right solution undertaken for the wrong reasons reasons that grew out of political opportunism. The book also defends the CI a's exposure of foreign meddling in US elections.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: A Question Of Standing The History Of The Cia\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Jeffreys - Jones Rhodri (Professor Emeritus Of American History And Honorary Fellow Professor Emeritus Of American History And Honorary Fellow University Of Edinburgh)\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780192847966\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 320 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 8\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Warfare \u0026amp; Defence","brand":"Jeffreys - Jones Rhodri (Professor Emeritus Of American History And Honorary Fellow Professor Emeritus Of American History And Honorary Fellow University Of Edinburgh)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49591836934449,"sku":"IN-G-9780192847966","price":38.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780192847966-a-question-of-standing-the-history-of-the-cia","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}