Bruce P Montgomery
Biographic Data
| ID | 1597358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce P Montgomery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce P |
| FAMILY NAME | Montgomery |
| SIGNATURE | MONTGOMERY B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Kurdish Files of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Regime
The U.S.-led wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003 resulted in the seizure of vast quantities of internal state security documents from the former regime of Saddam Hussein. Following Iraq’s 1991 defeat in Kuwait, the Kurds staged a popular uprising against Saddam’s dictatorial rule, capturing tons of secret police files that detailed vast humanitarian crimes, including corroborating evidence of the “al-Anfāl” (referring to Quran: “The Spoils of War”…
U.S. Restitution of the Iraq Secret Police Files from Saddam Hussein’s Regime Regarding the Kurds in Iraq
More than twenty years after Kurdish forces captured mass quantities of Iraqi secret police files chronicling the Anfal genocide and other events in their March 1991 uprising, a digital copy of these documents has been repatriated to Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the military transport of the documents to the U.S. and their scanning by the Defense Intelligence Agency, both a copy of these digital documents and the original files were acquired by the…
The Rape of Kuwait's National Memory
In the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi forces prosecuted a mass campaign of pillage and destruction. Under the coordinated direction of Iraqi curators who were well acquainted with Kuwait's cultural treasures, occupying Iraqi troops plundered thousands of cultural objects from museums, libraries, and archives. Among the pillaged cultural spoils were Kuwait's national archives, comprising the emirate's historical memory. Until recently, Iraq…
Rescue or Return
Shortly following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an American mobile exploitation team was diverted from its mission in hunting for weapons for mass destruction to search for an ancient Talmud in the basement of Saddam Hussein's secret police (Mukhabarat) headquarters in Baghdad. Instead of finding the ancient holy book, the soldiers rescued from the basement flooded with several feet of fetid water an invaluable archive of disparate individual and co…
The Archives of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Immortality in the Secret Police Files
Shortly after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Kanan Makiya, a long time Iraqi dissident and professor of Middle East studies at Brandeis University, uncovered a major trove of documents belonging to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and his security forces. The documents proved highly important in reflecting the inner workings of the Baath Party system in his final years in power. Soon after the discovery of the documents, the Iraq Memory Foundati…
The Bush-Cheney Administration's Assault on Open Government
The Bush-Cheney administration took office in 2001 determined to assert the preeminent authority of the executive branch and its immunity from congressional oversight and public transparency. Within months, Congress's Use of Force resolution on the heels of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave the White House the platform for launching an aggressive and successful campaign to gut the nation's open government laws, neuter congressional prerogatives, an…
Congressional Oversight
Journal Article Congressional Oversight: Vice President Richard B. Cheney's Executive Branch Triumph Get access Bruce P. Montgomery Bruce P. Montgomery BRUCE P. MONTGOMERY is associate professor, faculty director of archives, and founding director of the Human Rights Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Subverting Open Government: White House Materials and Executive Branch Politics and various articles on presi…
Source Material
Upon leaving office in 1976, Henry Kissinger donated the records of his telephone diplomacy with foreign leaders to the Library of Congress as his private property under restrictive terms that sealed them until after his death. Against claims that the materials were public documents or Nixon historical materials, Kissinger fought a legal battle to monopolize the history of his deeds. After almost thirty years, Kissinger unexpectedly agreed to rel…
The Human Rights Watch Archives
Source Material
Former president Nixon's legal campaign to reclaim ownership over Ms White House materials after they were seized by an act of Congress has profoundly influenced how the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations have attempted to exercise a maximum controlling interest in their own White House materials. In the 1977 case Nixon v. Administrator of General Services , the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically rejected Nixon's constitutional claims of exec…
Source Material
The Joseph A. Beirne Memorial Archives
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce P. MontgomeryBruce P. Montgomery is in charge of the Joseph A. Beirne Memorial Archives
Immortality in the Secret Police Files
Shortly after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Kanan Makiya, a long time Iraqi dissident and professor of Middle East studies at Brandeis University, uncovered a major trove of documents belonging to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and his security forces. The documents proved highly important in reflecting the inner workings of the Baath Party system in his final years in power. Soon after the discovery of the documents, the Iraq Memory Foundati…
The Rape of Kuwait's National Memory
In the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi forces prosecuted a mass campaign of pillage and destruction. Under the coordinated direction of Iraqi curators who were well acquainted with Kuwait's cultural treasures, occupying Iraqi troops plundered thousands of cultural objects from museums, libraries, and archives. Among the pillaged cultural spoils were Kuwait's national archives, comprising the emirate's historical memory. Until recently, Iraq…
Source Material
Source Material
Former president Nixon's legal campaign to reclaim ownership over Ms White House materials after they were seized by an act of Congress has profoundly influenced how the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations have attempted to exercise a maximum controlling interest in their own White House materials. In the 1977 case Nixon v. Administrator of General Services , the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically rejected Nixon's constitutional claims of exec…
Rescue or Return
Shortly following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an American mobile exploitation team was diverted from its mission in hunting for weapons for mass destruction to search for an ancient Talmud in the basement of Saddam Hussein's secret police (Mukhabarat) headquarters in Baghdad. Instead of finding the ancient holy book, the soldiers rescued from the basement flooded with several feet of fetid water an invaluable archive of disparate individual and co…
Congressional Oversight
Journal Article Congressional Oversight: Vice President Richard B. Cheney's Executive Branch Triumph Get access Bruce P. Montgomery Bruce P. Montgomery BRUCE P. MONTGOMERY is associate professor, faculty director of archives, and founding director of the Human Rights Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Subverting Open Government: White House Materials and Executive Branch Politics and various articles on presi…
The Joseph A. Beirne Memorial Archives
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce P. MontgomeryBruce P. Montgomery is in charge of the Joseph A. Beirne Memorial Archives
The Human Rights Watch Archives
Source Material
Former president Nixon's legal campaign to reclaim ownership over Ms White House materials after they were seized by an act of Congress has profoundly influenced how the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations have attempted to exercise a maximum controlling interest in their own White House materials. In the 1977 case Nixon v. Administrator of General Services , the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically rejected Nixon's constitutional claims of exec…
Source Material
Source Material
Upon leaving office in 1976, Henry Kissinger donated the records of his telephone diplomacy with foreign leaders to the Library of Congress as his private property under restrictive terms that sealed them until after his death. Against claims that the materials were public documents or Nixon historical materials, Kissinger fought a legal battle to monopolize the history of his deeds. After almost thirty years, Kissinger unexpectedly agreed to rel…
Congressional Oversight
Journal Article Congressional Oversight: Vice President Richard B. Cheney's Executive Branch Triumph Get access Bruce P. Montgomery Bruce P. Montgomery BRUCE P. MONTGOMERY is associate professor, faculty director of archives, and founding director of the Human Rights Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Subverting Open Government: White House Materials and Executive Branch Politics and various articles on presi…
The Bush-Cheney Administration's Assault on Open Government
The Bush-Cheney administration took office in 2001 determined to assert the preeminent authority of the executive branch and its immunity from congressional oversight and public transparency. Within months, Congress's Use of Force resolution on the heels of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave the White House the platform for launching an aggressive and successful campaign to gut the nation's open government laws, neuter congressional prerogatives, an…
The Archives of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Immortality in the Secret Police Files
Shortly after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Kanan Makiya, a long time Iraqi dissident and professor of Middle East studies at Brandeis University, uncovered a major trove of documents belonging to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and his security forces. The documents proved highly important in reflecting the inner workings of the Baath Party system in his final years in power. Soon after the discovery of the documents, the Iraq Memory Foundati…
Rescue or Return
Shortly following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an American mobile exploitation team was diverted from its mission in hunting for weapons for mass destruction to search for an ancient Talmud in the basement of Saddam Hussein's secret police (Mukhabarat) headquarters in Baghdad. Instead of finding the ancient holy book, the soldiers rescued from the basement flooded with several feet of fetid water an invaluable archive of disparate individual and co…
U.S. Restitution of the Iraq Secret Police Files from Saddam Hussein’s Regime Regarding the Kurds in Iraq
More than twenty years after Kurdish forces captured mass quantities of Iraqi secret police files chronicling the Anfal genocide and other events in their March 1991 uprising, a digital copy of these documents has been repatriated to Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the military transport of the documents to the U.S. and their scanning by the Defense Intelligence Agency, both a copy of these digital documents and the original files were acquired by the…
The Rape of Kuwait's National Memory
In the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi forces prosecuted a mass campaign of pillage and destruction. Under the coordinated direction of Iraqi curators who were well acquainted with Kuwait's cultural treasures, occupying Iraqi troops plundered thousands of cultural objects from museums, libraries, and archives. Among the pillaged cultural spoils were Kuwait's national archives, comprising the emirate's historical memory. Until recently, Iraq…
The Kurdish Files of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Regime
The U.S.-led wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003 resulted in the seizure of vast quantities of internal state security documents from the former regime of Saddam Hussein. Following Iraq’s 1991 defeat in Kuwait, the Kurds staged a popular uprising against Saddam’s dictatorial rule, capturing tons of secret police files that detailed vast humanitarian crimes, including corroborating evidence of the “al-Anfāl” (referring to Quran: “The Spoils of War”…
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