David Burnham

Above the Law (eBook, ePUB)

Secret Deals, Political Fixes and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The U.S. Department of Justice is an institution of vast reach and power over the American people, with little oversight into its internal operations. This book examines the ways that attorneys general, FBI directors, federal prosecutors and other Justice Department officials have often abused their powers to achieve political goals rather than pursuing justice. Its warning remains as relevant in the digital post-9/11 era of the expanded national security state as it was in the days of J. Edgar Hoover.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Distribution
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497696853
• Artikelnr.: 42395093

Autorenporträt

David Burnham is one of America's foremost investigative reporters. In more than 18 years with The New York Times he uncovered abuses, corruption and wrongdoing at powerful government agencies including the Internal Revenue Service, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the FBI and the New York Police Department. His reporting work with Frank Serpico and David Durk led to the formation of the Knapp Commission and reform of the New York Police Department. Karen Silkwood was driving to meet with Burnham on abuses at the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant in Oklahoma when she was killed under mysterious circumstances. For 25 years Burnham has been co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonprofit organization affiliated with Syracuse University that uses government agencies' own records to analyze and make public their actions and inactions in law and regulatory enforcement in areas such as drug use, immigration, tax collection, white-collar crime and weapons use.