ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some of the arguments for regarding intelligence ethics as an important issue of concern in intelligence practice. The resistance to intelligence ethics can be divided into at least three categories, such as, the overriding argument, the legality argument and the immoral argument. The chapter examines how intelligence ethics can play a central role in the practice of intelligence by providing ethical guidelines. Most ethical guidelines for intelligence services are kept secret and they are not generally available for public scrutiny. Such codes are most likely to have been developed within the organization, without any advice from external ethical experts. John Kleinig deals mainly with intelligence collection within police services, and he argues for the need for ethical considerations in the context of intelligence-led policing. He critically examines how the acquisition of knowledge via intelligence methods can potentially 'threaten other important social values' than security.
