Spy watching: intelligence accountability in the United States

Introduction: Democracy and intelligence

Part I: The magnitude of the challenge

Tracking an elusive behemoth

Intelligence exceptionalism

Part II: The evolution of intelligence accountability

CDemocracy comes to the secret agencies

The experiment in intelligence accountability begins

Spy watching in an age of terror

Part III: The patterns of intelligence accountability

A shock theory of intelligence accountability

The media and intelligence accountability

Ostriches, cheerleaders, lemon-suckers, and guardians

Part IV: The practice of intelligence accountability

In the trenches: collection and analysis, covert action

In the wilderness: coping with counterintelligence

Part V: The future of intelligence accountability

Intelligence accountability and the nation's spy chiefs

The ongoing quest for liberty and security

Epilogue: Intelligence in the early Trump administration

Appendix A: The organization of the U.S. intelligence community, 2017

Appendix B: U.S. intelligence leadership, 1946-2017

Appendix C: The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980.