This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, such as privacy; autonomy; threats to national security and democracy by foreign states; and accountability for liberal democracies. This volume provides a comprehensive set of in-depth ethical analyses of these problems by combining contributions from both ethics scholars and intelligence practitioners. It provides the reader with a practical understanding of relevant operations, the issues that they raise and analysis of how responses to these issues can be informed by a commitment to liberal democratic values. This combination of perspectives is crucial in providing an informed appreciation of ethical challenges that is also grounded in the realities of the practice of intelligence. This book will be of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies, foreign policy and international relations.
Author(s): Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan, Patrick F. Walsh
Series: Studies In Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 317
Tags: Intelligence Service: Moral And Ethical Aspects; National Security: Moral And Ethical Aspects
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Introduction
Part I The just intelligence model
1 Intelligence and the just war tradition: the need for a flexible ethical framework
2 Truth-seeking and the principles of discrimination, necessity, proportionality and reciprocity in national security intelligence activity
3 The technoethics of contemporary intelligence practice: a framework for analysis
Part II Espionage
4 Ethics in the recruiting and handling of espionage agents
5 The rights of foreign intelligence targets
6 Digital sleeper cells and the ethics of risk management
7 Intelligence sharing among coalition forces: some legal and ethical challenges and potential solutions
Part III Bulk data collection and analysis
8 Privacy, bulk collection and “operational utility”
9 Surveillance, intelligence and ethics in a COVID-19 world
Part IV Covert operations
10 Ethics and covert action: the “Third Option” in American foreign policy
11 Jus ad vim: war, peace and the ethical status of the in-between
Part V Accountability
12 Reaching the inflection point: the Hughes-Ryan Amendment and intelligence oversight
13 Congressional oversight of US intelligence activities
14 Accountability for covert action in the United States and the United Kingdom
Part VI Future directions
15 GEOINT and the post-secret world: who guards the guards?
16 Evolving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism: intelligence community response and ethical challenges
17 Reflections on the future of intelligence
Index
