ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that theorisation is particularly lacking in terms of incorporating intelligence elites' manipulative strategies; and also in terms of theorising what effective public oversight of intelligence elites could constitute. To theorise intelligence accountability, intelligence scholars suggest that we adapt the 'just war' paradigm to construct a concept of jus in intelligentia. To summarise: journalism and media scholarship confirms the existence of intelligence elite manipulation of the press and wider civil society, and that this compromises civil society's ability to hold intelligence elites publicly accountable. The chapter suggests that there are three Accountability Demands that all public organs seeking to hold intelligence elites publicly accountable should be capable of. These Accountability Demands concern the accuracy and value of intelligence, the intelligence elite response to intelligence controversies, and the ethics, morality and legality of how intelligence is gained or for what is used.
