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Hardback. New. This book is a unique and innovative study of the status, powers, and activities of MI5 during the Cold War. It contends that MI5 was subject neither to effective political nor legal scrutiny, and examines the operations of the Security Service for civil liberties, and the contemporary relevance of Cold War practices. ISBN 0198818629 9780198818625 [GB]
ISBN10: 0198818629, ISBN13: 9780198818625, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2020]
ISBN10: 0198818629, ISBN13: 9780198818625, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. It argues that MI5 acted with neither statutory authority nor statutory powers, and with no obvious forms of statutory accountability. It was established as a counter-espionage agency, yet was beset by espionage scandals on a frequency that suggested if not high levels of incompetence, then high levels of distraction and the squandering ofresources.The book addresses the evolution of MI5's mandate after the Second World War which set out its role and functions, and to a limited extent the lines of accountability, thesurveillance targets of MI5 and the surveillance methods that it used for this purpose, with a focus in two chapters on MPs and lawyers respectively; the purposes for which this information was used, principally to exclude people from certain forms of employment; and the accountability of MI5 or the lack thereof for the way in which it discharged its responsibilities under the mandate.As lawyers the authors' concern is to consider these questions within the context of therule of law, one of the core principles of the British constitution, the values of which it was the duty of the Security Service to uphold. Based on extensive archival research, it suggests that MI5operated without legal authority or exceeded the legal authori ...
ISBN10: 0198818629, ISBN13: 9780198818625, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. 2.11 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2020]
ISBN10: 0198818629, ISBN13: 9780198818625, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [Salisbury Plain, SA, Australia] [Publication Year: 2020]
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