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Athan Theoharis's The Quest for Absolute Security convincingly demonstrates both the dangers to liberty inherent in the undue centralization of government authority over intelligence activities and the fundamental need for aggressive congressional oversight of such activities if the United States is to strike the necessary and proper balance between protecting our national security and preserving our individual freedoms.--Geoffrey R. Stone, author of War and Liberty: An American Dilemma

Athan Theoharis's The Quest for Absolute Security convincingly demonstrates both the dangers to liberty inherent in the undue centralization of government authority over intelligence activities and the fundamental need for aggressive congressional oversight of such activities if the United States is to strike the necessary and proper balance between protecting our national security and preserving our individual freedoms.--Geoffrey R. Stone

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Athan Theoharis, dean of FBI historians, has also written Chasing Spies, The Boss, and From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover. He lives in Milwaukee.

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