National Security Intelligence and Ethics / edited by Seumas Miller, Milton C. Regan, Patrick F. Walsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Seumas, editor.

Regan, Milton C., editor.

Walsh, Patrick F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor & Francis, 2022.

Summary:

"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".

Contents:

The just intelligence model Intelligence and the just war tradition : the need for a flexible ethical framework / Ross Bellaby Truth-seeking and the principles of discrimination, necessity, proportionality and reciprocity in national security intelligence activity / Seumas Miller The technoethics of contemporary intelligence practice : a framework for analysis / David Omand and Mark Phythian Espionage Ethics in the recruiting and handling of espionage agents / David Perry The rights of foreign intelligence targets / Michael Skerker Digital sleeper cells and the ethics of risk management / Kevin Macnish Intelligence sharing among coalition forces : some legal and ethical challenges and potential solutions / David Letts Bulk data collection and analysis Privacy, bulk collection and "operational utility" / Tom Sorell Surveillance, intelligence and ethics in a COVID19 world / Jessica Davis Covert operations Ethics and covert action : the "third option" in American foreign policy / Loch Johnson Jus ad vim : war, peace, and the ethical status of the in-between / Nicholas Melgaard and David Wetham Accountability Reaching the inflection point : the Hughes-Ryan Amendment and intelligence oversight / Genevieve Lester and Frank Jones Congressional oversight of US intelligence activities / Mary DeRosa Accountability for covert action in the United States and the United Kingdom / Mitt Regan and Michele Poole / Future directions GEOINT and the post-secret world : who guards the guards? / Robert Cardillo Evolving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism : intelligence community response and ethical challenges / Patrick F. Walsh Reflections on the future of intelligence / Gregory Treverton.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.