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Blurring Intelligence Crime, A Critical Forensics, by Willem Bart de Lint

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Blurring Intelligence Crime, A Critical Forensics, by Willem Bart de Lint

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blurring Intelligence Crime

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1244117138

Responsibility statement

by Willem Bart de Lint

Series statement

Springer eBooks.

Sub title

A Critical Forensics

Summary

This book explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act of outrageous harm depends on rules and protocols of crime scene discovery and forensic recovery, but political authorities review events for a social agenda, so that crime is designated according to the relative absence or presence of politics. In investigating this problem, the book introduces the concepts 'intelligence crime' and 'critical forensics.' It also reviews as an exemplar of this phenomenon 'apex crime,' a watershed event involving government in the support of a contested political and social order and its primary opponent as the obvious offender, which is then subject to a confirmation bias. Chapters feature case study analysis of a selection of familiar, high profile crimes in which the motives and actions of security or intelligence actors are considered as blurred or smeared depending on their interconnection in transactional political events, or according to friend/enemy status.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Blur and a Critical Forensics of Intelligence Crime -- Forensic Certainties -- Anti-forensics: Intelligence Crime and Blur -- The Events of September 11, 2001: Apex Crime -- Intelligence Crime 1: Let's not be too Hard on Ourselves -- Intelligence Crime 2: 'Smear,' or Crimes Committed by 'them' -- The Intelligence Crime Blur: Shaping Opinion and Smudging Records -- Conclusion

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