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National Security Intelligence and Ethics book cover

1st Edition

National Security Intelligence and Ethics

Edited By Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan, Patrick F. Walsh Copyright 2022
316 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Introduction

Seumas Miller, Milton Regan and Patrick F. Walsh

Part I: The Just Intelligence Model

  1. Intelligence and the Just War Tradition: The Need for a Flexible Ethical Framework

    2. Ross Bellaby

  2. Truth-Seeking and the Principles of Discrimination, Necessity, Proportionality and Reciprocity in National Security Intelligence Activity

    3. Seumas Miller

  3. The Technoethics of Contemporary Intelligence Practice: A Framework for Analysis

    4. David Omand and Mark Phythian

    Part II: Espionage

  4. Ethics in the Recruiting and Handling of Espionage Agents

    5. David Perry

  5. The Rights of Foreign Intelligence Targets

    6. Michael Skerker

  6. Digital Sleeper Cells and the Ethics of Risk Management

    7. Kevin Macnish

  7. Intelligence Sharing Among Coalition Forces: Some Legal and Ethical Challenges and Potential Solutions

    8. David Letts

    Part III: Bulk Data Collection and Analysis

  8. Privacy, Bulk Collection and "Operational Utility"

    9. Tom Sorell

  9. Surveillance, Intelligence and Ethics in a COVID19 World

    10. Jessica Davis

    Part IV: Covert Operations

  10. Ethics and Covert Action: The "Third Option" in American Foreign Policy

    11. Loch Johnson

  11. Jus ad Vim: War, Peace and the Ethical Status of the In-between

    12. Nicholas Melgaard and David Whetham

    Part V: Accountability

  12. Reaching the Inflection Point: The Hughes-Ryan Amendment and Intelligence Oversight

    13. Genevieve Lester and Frank Jones

  13. Congressional Oversight of US Intelligence Activities

    14. Mary DeRosa

  14. Accountability for Covert Action in the United States and the United Kingdom

    15. Milton Regan and Michele Poole

    Part VI: Future Directions

  15. GEOINT and the Post-Secret World: Who Guards the Guards?

    16. Robert Cardillo

  16. Evolving Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism: Intelligence Community Response and Ethical Challenges

    17. Patrick F. Walsh

  17. Reflections on the Future of Intelligence

Gregory Treverton

Biography

Seumas Miller holds research positions at Charles Sturt University, Australia, TU Delft, the Netherlands and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center, USA. He also serves as a senior fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Patrick F. Walsh is a former intelligence analyst and Associate Professor of intelligence and security studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

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