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  Public oversight of the security sector: a handbook for civil society organizations

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2008

  Governments tend to keep a tight reign on the security sector. Under pretexts of national security - especially in recourse to a ‘war on terror’ - the state’s security apparatus, and actions, are frequently closed to public scrutiny.