International Intelligence Ethics Association
Ethics in the Intelligence Community 2008

Scheduled Program Topics

·         Subverting Professional Ethics Boards: Can This Occur?

·         Arrest and Interrogation as Tools for Extracting Information: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Game Theory 

·         Torture & Ticking Time-Bombs:  Empirical Research Regarding Moral Judgments

·         Just Intelligence: When Is It Legitimate To Obtain Information That Others Wish To Conceal

·         Examining the Moral Permissibility of Detention and Torture in the Light of the Military Commissions Act

·         Developing a Code of Ethics for the Intelligence Community: What Can be Learned from Law Enforcement in the Post-9/11 Era

·         Politicalization and the Role of Intelligence in a Post-9/11 era

·         Stretching Just War Theory Into Intelligence: Can Such A Framework Succeed?

·         Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence: The Russian Federation Experience

·         Unwinding the Dichotomy of Personal Data

·         Intelligence and the Ethics of Expertise

·         Character and the Intelligence Profession

·         Birth of Professional Ethics Review Boards

·         Can Just War Theory Contribute to a Normative Framework for Intelligence Ethics?

·         Finding the Moral High Ground: Balancing Individual and Collective Rights in National Emergency Situations

·         Ethics of Human Intelligence Operations: Of M.I.C.E. and Men

·         The Ethics of Belief and Law Enforcement

·         The Changing Context of Intelligence and Ethics: Enabling Technologies as Transformational Engines

·         Counterintelligence and Ethics: The Insider Threat

·         Skirting Ethical Boundaries: Considerations of intelligence Ethics and The State of Intelligence Theory

·         Course Development: Teaching Ethics and Intelligence

·         Ethical Implications of Semantic Dissonance for Intelligence