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Executive Accountability and National Security
The Modern Law Review ( IF 1.540 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 , DOI: 10.1111/1468-2230.12624
Lorna Woods , Lawrence McNamara , Judith Townend

The protection of national security has traditionally been an exception to general norms of public accountability, based on prerogative powers. The last three decades have seen efforts to bring national security closer to the normal constitutional control mechanisms of parliament and the courts. The design of and changes to mechanisms of accountability have, however, been accepted without discussion of the often narrower purposes for which they were first established (most notably for oversight of surveillance), the extent of their departure from constitutional principles, or their impact in embedding new forms of exceptionalism in the constitutional framework. This article critically assesses these developments, prompted for example by the Law Commission's recommendations to reform official secrets laws, which adopted trusted intermediary and indirect accountability models without full consideration of historical and contemporary concerns or the exceptionalism on which they were based. Though focused on the UK, our account provides a cautionary tale for national security law reform in any modern democracy.

中文翻译:

行政问责制与国家安全

传统上,基于特权,国家安全保护一直是公共问责制一般准则的例外。在过去的三十年中,人们一直在努力使国家安全更接近议会和法院的正常宪法控制机制。但是,在不讨论问责机制最初确定的目的通常较窄的目的(最明显地是为了监督监督),其脱离宪法原则的程度或对其产生的影响的讨论中,问责机制的设计和更改已被接受。在宪法框架中嵌入新形式的例外主义。本文对这些事态发展进行了严格的评估,例如法律委员会提出的有关改革官方机密法律的建议,它采用了受信任的中介和间接问责模型,而没有充分考虑历史和当代问题或它们所基于的例外情况。尽管侧重于英国,但我们的论述为任何现代民主国家的国家安全法改革提供了一个警示性的故事。
更新日期:2021-04-09
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