Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law, Steven Lubet

Автор: Spiegel, James S.
Название: Hypocrisy
ISBN: 1532694830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532694837
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Описание: This book`s statistical and legal analyses of international organizations` constitutions reveal many new - and seemingly contradictory - interpretations of international organizations law. Not only does this book provide a map of international organizations` values, it provides a healthy start towards fully understanding that map, thereby helping global governance take a quantum leap forward. -- .

Автор: Mokrosinska, Dorota (leiden University, Netherlands)
Название: State secrecy and democracy
ISBN: 0367539233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367539238
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Описание: In the wake of controversial disclosures of classified government information by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, questions about the democratic status of secret uses of political power are rarely far from the headlines. Despite an increase in initiatives aimed at enhancing government transparency – such as freedom of information or sunshine laws – secrecy persists in both the foreign and domestic policy of democratic states, in the form of classified intelligence programs, espionage, secret military operations, diplomatic discretion, closed-door political bargaining, and bureaucratic opacity.This book explores whether the state’s claim to restrict access to information can be justified. Dorota Mokrosinska answers this question with a qualified "yes," arguing that secrecy in exercising executive and legislative power can be seen as a legitimate exercise of democratic authority rather than as its justified suspension.Past and recent examples of state secrecy are used throughout the book, including the Manhattan Project, decision-making leading to the Iraq War, the extraordinary renditions programs and secret detention sites in Eastern Europe, collaboration between international secret services, and the WikiLeaks and Snowden disclosures.State Secrecy and Democracy: A Philosophical Inquiry is essential reading for those in political philosophy, ethics, politics, international relations and security studies, and law.

Автор: Cotton Christian, Arp Robert
Название: Wikileaking: The Ethics of Secrecy and Exposure
ISBN: 0812699882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812699883
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Описание: WikiLeaks is famous--or infamous--for publishing secret material, including classified government documents, confidential videos and emails, and information leaked by whistleblowers, some of them anonymous, others revealing their identities. WikiLeaks claims to have compiled a database of more than ten million "forbidden" documents. Its founder and leader, Australian activist Julian Assange proclaims that the public is entitled to the truth and that "information wants to be free."

WikiLeaks activities have polarized opinion, with some claiming its operations are traitorous and harmful, and others defending its releases as necessary exposure of wrongdoing.

In What Philosophy Can Tell You about WikiLeaks, professional philosophers with diverse opinions and backgrounds deliver their provocative insights into WikiLeaks.

● If leaking secrets sometimes causes harm, can this harm be outweighed by the benefit of more people knowing the truth?

● How much of WikiLeaks information is true, and does it matter that some of it might be erroneous or misleading through lack of context?

● Is the prevalence of leaking an automatic outcome of the value of free expression, as enshrined in the First Amendment?

● If it's wrong to lie, does this imply that it's always right to speak the truth?

● Does selective media bias require to be countered by unpredictable leaking?

● Can there be too much information? And if so, how can citizens protect themselves against information overload?

● WikiLeaks activists are guided by a code of ethics. How does this compare with the professional ethics of conventional journalists?

● When French politician Emmanuel Macron included deliberate falsehoods in his emails, knowing they would be leaked, he showed the relation between leaking and "bullshit," as defined by Harry Frankfurt. Can we expect the prevalence of leaking to increase the volume of bullshit?

● The existence of government necessitates the practice of subterfuge and double-dealing by statesmen, but the culture of democracy calls for transparency. How can we fix the boundary between necessary deception and the public's "right to know"?

● Leaking exposes what some powerful person wants to be kept secret. Is leaking always justified whenever that person wants to keep their own immoral actions secret, and is leaking not justified when the keeper of secrets has done nothing wrong?