ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on signals intelligence, SIGINT, and image analysis intelligence, IMAGINT. The model ultimately cautions states to be conservative in their intelligence-gathering efforts. The professionals who work in morally vital institutions meet their collective moral responsibilities in part by adhering to their properly constituted professional norms. Professional norms are chiefly ends-oriented, directing the professional to take steps that bring about their institutions’ characteristic ends for their clients: education, justice, health, security etc. Certain state agents have a professional duty to meet the collective moral right of security for their political entities, but this duty is too vague to be action-guiding. The clients of intelligence officers – the inhabitants of their state – have a positive right to security. Most non-targets of collateral intelligence collection do not waive their relevant rights. The duty to support just institutions is not restricted to institutions of one’s own state, but extends in different ways to foreign institutions.
