Security in the balance: how Britain tried to keep its Iraq War secrets/ Owen David Thomas
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Security Dialogue Vol.51, No.1, February 2020. pp. 77-95 (47)Summary: State secrecy is incompatible with the values of liberal democracy if there is no publicly reasonable justification for the concealment. But the question of how to keep state secrets amidst suspicion that no such justification exists or those secrets contain evidence of wrongdoing? Hence this article maps and critiques the justificatory strategies that were used by the British state in refusing to disclose secret material related to the 2003 Iraq War, despite widespread accusations of hidden deception and illegality.
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State secrecy is incompatible with the values of liberal democracy if there is no publicly reasonable justification for the concealment. But the question of how to keep state secrets amidst suspicion that no such justification exists or those secrets contain evidence of wrongdoing? Hence this article maps and critiques the justificatory strategies that were used by the British state in refusing to disclose secret material related to the 2003 Iraq War, despite widespread accusations of hidden deception and illegality.
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