Ethics and the future of spying : technology, national security and intelligence collection / edited by Jai Galliott and Warren Reed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galliott, Jai, editor.

Reed, Warren, 1945- editor.

Series:

Studies in intelligence series

Studies in intelligence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--Moral and ethical aspects.

Intelligence service.

Espionage--Moral and ethical aspects.

Espionage.

Electronic surveillance--Moral and ethical aspects.

Electronic surveillance.

Electronic data processing--Moral and ethical aspects.

Electronic data processing.

Spies--Professional ethics.

Spies.

Political ethics.

National security.

Professional ethics.

Physical Description:

xvi, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised. Intelligence officers, whether gatherers, analysts or some combination thereof, are operating in a sea of social, political, scientific and technological change. This book examines the new challenges faced by the intelligence community as a result of these changes. It looks not only at how governments employ spies as a tool of state and how the ultimate outcomes are judged by their societies, but also at the mind-set of the spy. In so doing, this volume casts a rare light on an often ignored dimension of spying: the essential role of truth and how it is defined in an intelligence context. This book offers some insights into the workings of the intelligence community and aims to provide the first comprehensive and unifying analysis of the relevant moral, legal and social questions, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real-world decision making. The contributors analyse the ethics of spying across a broad canvas - historical, philosophical, moral and cultural - with chapters covering interrogation and torture, intelligence's relation to war, remote killing, cyber surveillance, responsibility and governance. In the wake of the phenomena of WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden revelations, the intelligence community has entered an unprecedented period of broad public scrutiny and scepticism, making this volume a timely contribution. This book will be of much interest to students of ethics, intelligence studies, security studies, foreign policy and IR in general. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The moral case for spying 13

1 The virtues of Bond and vices of Bauer: an Aristotelian defence of espionage / Mark Jensen Jensen, Mark 15

2 The limits of intelligence gathering: Gianni Vattimo and the need to monitor 'violent' thinker? / Matthew Harris Harris, Matthew 27

3 The epistemology of intelligence ethics / Alexander Fatic Fatic, Alexander 39

Part II Interrogation, torture and terrorism 53

4 The human costs of torture / Matthew Beard Beard, Matthew 55

5 The implications of spying and torture for human freedom from a Sartre an point of view / Martine Berenpas Berenpas, Martine 68

6 Prediction markets as an alternative to one more spy / Dan Weijers Weijers, Dan 80

Part III Spying as war: classificatory problems 93

7 Persons, personhood and proportionality: building on a just war approach to intelligence ethics / Kevin Macnish Macnish, Kevin 95

8 Just war, cyberwar and cyber-espionage / Matthew Beard Beard, Matthew 107

9 A dilemma for indiscriminate pre-emptive spying / Nicolas Tavaglione Tavaglione, Nicolas 120

10 The morality of unconventional force / Thomas Simpson Simpson, Thomas 132

Part IV Remote surveillance and killing 143

11 I, spy robot: the ethics of robots in national intelligence activities / Patrick Lin Lin, Patrick, Shannon Ford Ford, Shannon 145

12 Emerging technologies, asymmetric force and terrorist blowback / Jai Galliott Galliott, Jai 158

13 Targeting thresholds: the impact of intelligence capability on ethical requirements for high-value targeting operations / John Hardy Hardy, John 177

Part V Leaks and secrets 191

14 The NSA leaks, Edward Snowden, and the ethics and accountability of intelligence collection / Seumas Miller Miller, Seumas, Patrick Walsh Walsh, Patrick 193

15 WikiLeaks and whistleblowing: privacy and consent in an age of digital surveillance / Jeremy Wisnewski Wisnewski, Jeremy 205

Part VI Responsibility and governance 217

16 Ethics for intelligence officers / Michael Falgoust Falgoust, Michael, Brian Roux Roux, Brian 219

17 'Due care' or a 'duty to care'? Codes of ethics intelligence gathering / Jill Hernandez Hernandez, Jill 233

18 Conclusion: a spy's perspective / Warren Reed Reed, Warren 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138820364

1138820369

9781138820395

1138820393

OCLC:

881448587

Publisher Number:

40025726742