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The State of Secrecy - Richard Norton-Taylor

The State of Secrecy

Spies and the Media in Britain
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-38193-3 (ISBN)
CHF 22,65 inkl. MwSt
Described by a former senior Intelligence official as a ‘long-term thorn in the side of the intelligence establishment’, Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall.

Early in his career, Norton-Taylor successfully campaigned against official secrecy, gaining a reputation inside the Whitehall establishment and the outside world alike for his relentless determination to expose wrongdoing and incompetence. His special targets have always been the security and intelligence agencies and the Ministry of Defence, institutions that often hide behind the cloak of national security to protect themselves from embarrassment and accountability. Encouraged by his trusted contacts in intelligence agencies and Whitehall departments, Norton-Taylor was among the first of the few journalists to consistently attack the planned invasion of Iraq in 2003, and subsequently covered the devastating evidence of every witness in the Chilcot inquiry in the Guardian . With unique access to a wide array of defence sources, The State of Secrecy offers a provocative and rare insight into the disputes among top military commanders as they struggled to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with under-resourced and ill-equipped troops.

Winner of numerous awards for his journalism, Norton-Taylor is one of the most respected defence and security journalists of his generation. The State of Secrecy is an illuminating, critical and provocative account of the author’s experiences investigating this secret world.

Richard Norton-Taylor writes for the Guardian on defence and security and the paper's Security Editor. He joined the Guardian in 1973 as the newspaper's first European correspondent based in Brussels and returned to Britain in 1975 to report on issues of intelligence and security. He won the Freedom of Information Campaign Award in 1986 and in 1994, and Liberty's Human Rights Award for journalism in 2010. He currently co-edits the Guardian Defence and Security blog and is a regular broadcaster.

Introduction
1. Heroes and Hacks
2. Poachers and Gamekeepers
3. City of Myths and Contradictions
4. Culture and Language of Secrecy
5. Secrecy Obsessed
6. History is an Official Secret
7. Spies - 1
8. Spies - 2
9. Provoking Terror
10. Chilcot Redux
11. Defending the Past
12. Defending the Future

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-38193-4 / 1350381934
ISBN-13 978-1-350-38193-3 / 9781350381933
Zustand Neuware
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