Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity: Who Will Watch the Watchers?

This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and intelligence oversight over time and space.

Largely confined to the sub-field of intelligence studies, scholarly engagements with intelligence oversight have typically downplayed the violence carried out by secretive agencies. These studies have often served to justify weak oversight structures and promoted only marginal adaptations of policy frameworks in the wake of intelligence scandals. The essays gather...