Presidents' Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power by Mary Graham

Author:Mary Graham [Graham, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, General, Political Science, Civil Rights, American Government, National, Executive Branch
ISBN: 9780300223743
Google: bscODgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0300223749
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017-01-15T00:40:23.215000+00:00

Ford could not have predicted on August 9 that during his time in office an unlikely convergence of events would create the greatest expansion of government openness and the most formidable limits on presidential secrecy in the nation’s history. In a cascade of suspicion that flowed from the Watergate scandal, Congress would grant courts the authority to second-guess presidents’ closed decisions, and surround intelligence gathering with legal barricades to protect the rights of Americans. Torn between his commitments to openness and national security, Ford would try to contain Congress’s disclosure of past intelligence abuses. And he would argue that the president alone should decide what information should remain confidential. But unlike Lyndon Johnson, he would make his arguments openly, contributing to a useful debate and a reasonable accommodation between openness and secrecy. The core idea that emerged from Ford’s years in office was that even when the nation’s security was threatened, as it was during the ongoing Cold War, the secret activities of the president and his intelligence agencies would be subject to constitutional checks by Congress and the courts.

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