Ethics and the Future of Spying: Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection / Edition 1

by Jai Galliott, Warren Reed

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138820395
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Series:	Studies in Intelligence
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jai Galliott is Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He holds a PhD in military ethics from Macquarie University, Australia, and was formerly a Naval Officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He is the author of Military Robots: Mapping the moral landscape (2015).

Warren Reed is a former intelligence officer with the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). Trained by MI6 in London, he served for ten years in Asia and the Middle East. He is a regular commentator on intelligence matters, industrial espionage and terrorism.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Jai Galliott and Warren Reed PART I: THE MORAL CASE FOR SPYING 1. The Virtues of Bond and Vices of Bauer: An Aristotelian Defence of Espionage, Mark Jensen 2. The Limits of Intelligence Gathering: Gianni Vattimo and the Need to Monitor ‘Violent’ Thinkers, Matthew Harris 3. The Epistemology of Intelligence Ethics, Alexander Factic PART II: INTERROGATION, TORTURE AND TERRORISM 4. The Human Costs of Torture, Matthew Beard 5. The Implications of Spying and Torture on Human Freedom from a Sartrean Point of View, Martine Berenpas 6. Predictive Markets as an Alternative to One More Spy, Dan Weijers PART III: SPYING AS WAR: CLASSIFICATORY PROBLEMS 7. Persons, Personhood and Proportionality: Building on a Just War Approach to Intelligence Ethics, Kevin McNish 8. Just War, Cyberwar and Cyber-Espionage, Matthew Beard 9. A Dilemma for Indiscriminate Pre-emptive Spying, Nicolas Tavaglione 10. The Morality of Unconventional Force, Thomas Simpson PART IV: REMOTE SURVEILLANCE AND KILLING 11. I, Spy Robot: The Ethics of Robots in National Intelligence Activities, Patric Lin and Shannon Ford 12. Emerging Technologies, Asymmetric Force and Terrorist Blowback, Jai Galliott 13. Targeting Thresholds: The Impact of Intelligence Capability on Ethical Requirements for High-Value Targeting Operations, John Hardy PART V: LEAKS AND SECRETS 14. The NSA Leaks, Edward Snowden and the Ethics and Accountability of Intelligence-Collection, Seumas Miller and Patrick Walsh 15. WikiLeaks and Whistleblowing: Privacy and Consent in an Age of Surveillance, Jeremy Wisnewski PART VI: RESPONSIBILITY AND GOVERNANCE 16. Ethics for Intelligence Officers, Michael Falgoust and Brian Roux 17. ‘Due-Care’ or a ‘Duty-to-Care’? Codes of Ethics in Intelligence Gathering, Jill Hernandez 18. Conclusion: A Spy's Perspective, Warren Reed