Principled spying : the ethics of secret intelligence /

Principled spying : the ethics of secret intelligence /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Omand, David, author.
Imprint:	Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (x, 286 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Intelligence service -- Moral and ethical aspects. Espionage -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic intelligence -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic surveillance -- Moral and ethical aspects. Spies -- Professional ethics. National security -- Moral and ethical aspects. Terrorism -- Prevention -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic surveillance -- Moral and ethical aspects. National security -- Moral and ethical aspects. Terrorism -- Prevention -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11955611

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Other authors / contributors:	Phythian, Mark, author.
ISBN:	9781626165618 1626165610 9781626165601 1626165602
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 18, 2018).
Summary:	Collecting and analyzing intelligence are essential to national security and an effective foreign policy. The public also looks to its security agencies for protection from terrorism, from serious criminality, and to be safe in using cyberspace. But intelligence activities pose inherent dilemmas for democratic societies. How far should the government be allowed to go in collecting and using intelligence before it jeopardizes the freedoms that citizens hold dear? This is one of the great unresolved issues of public policy, and it sits at the heart of broader debates concerning the relationship between the citizen and the state. In Safe and Sound, national security practitioner David Omand and intelligence scholar Mark Phythian offer an ethical framework for examining these issues and structure the book as an engaging debate. Rather than simply presenting their positions, throughout the book they pose key questions to each other and to the reader and offer contrasting perspectives to stimulate further discussion. They probe key areas of secret intelligence including human intelligence, surveillance, ethics of covert and clandestine actions, and oversight and accountability. The authors disagree on some key questions, but in the course of their debate they demonstrate that it is possible to strike a balance between liberty and security.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : why ethics matters in secret intelligence
Thinking about the ethical conduct of secret intelligence
Ethics, intelligence and the law
From just war to just intelligence?
Secret agents and covert human sources
Digital intelligence and cyberspace
The ethics of using intelligence
Building confidence through oversight and accountability
Conclusion: towards a safe and sound future.