Secrecy and Oversight: U.S. Law and Domestic Politics of Covert Action

• In Event: The Practice and Avoidance of Domestic Oversight

Brief Overview

This paper uses archival evidence of U.S. covert action to demonstrate how Congress’s use of laws as a means of foreign policy oversight leads to a predictable and unexpected choice of covert action components.

Author

• Melinda H. Haas, Princeton University