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- About the Contributors
- National Security Intelligence
- National Security and Public Anxiety: Our Changing Perceptions
- Theories of Intelligence
- The Sources and Methods of Intelligence Studies
- Getting Intelligence History Right: Reflections and Recommendations from the Inside
- Assessing Intelligence Performance
- The Rise of the U.S. Intelligence System, 1917–1977
- The Rise and Fall of the CIA
- British Strategic Intelligence and the Cold War
- Signals Intelligence in War and Power Politics, 1914–2010
- The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- Intelligence and Law Enforcement
- The Evolution of International Collaboration in the Global Intelligence Era
- The Dilemma of Open Sources intelligence: Is OSINT Really Intelligence?
- The Troubled Inheritance: The National Security Agency and the Obama Administration
- Human Source Intelligence
- United Nations Peacekeeping Intelligence
- Privatized Spying: The Emerging Intelligence Industry
- Guarding the Border: Intelligence and Law Enforcement in Canada's Immigration System
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Addressing “Complexities” in Homeland Security
- The Intelligence Analysis Crisis
- Competitive Analysis: Techniques for Better Gauging Enemy Political Intentions and Military Capabilities
- Decision Advantage and the Nature of Intelligence Analysis
- Intelligence Analysis in an Uncertain Environment
- The Dilemma of Defense Intelligence
- The Policymaker-Intelligence Relationship
- On Uncertainty and the Limits of Intelligence
- The Perils of Politicization
- Leadership in an Intelligence Organization: The Directors of Central Intelligence and the CIA
- The Future of FBI Counterintelligence through the Lens of the Past Hundred Years
- Treason: “ 'Tis Worse than Murder”
- The Challenges of Counterintelligence
- Catching an Atom Spy: MI5 and the Investigation of Klaus Fuchs
- Covert Action, Pentagon Style
- Covert Action: United States Law in Substance, Process, and Practice
- Covert Action: Strengths and Weaknesses:
- The Role of Defense in Shaping U.S. Intelligence Reform
- Intelligence and the Law in the United Kingdom
- Rethinking the State Secrets Privilege
- Accounting for the Future or the Past?: Developing Accountability and Oversight Systems to Meet Future Intelligence Needs
- “A Very British Institution”: The Intelligence and Security Committee and Intelligence Accountability in the United Kingdom
- The Politics of Intelligence Accountability
- Ethics and Professional Intelligence
- Intelligence in the Developing Democracies: The Quest for Transparency and Effectiveness
- The Intelligence Services of Russia
- The German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND): Evolution and Current Policy Issues
- Israeli Intelligence: Organization, Failures, and Successes
- Intelligence and National Security: The Australian Experience
- Glossary
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article discusses Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) and intelligence accountability in the United Kingdom. It discusses the origins of intelligence oversight in the United Kingdom including ISC's independence, its ability to maintain secrets, its means of access to information, and its expertise and investigative powers. The article also discusses the reforms undertaken by the ISC to retain public confidence in the committee such as recognizing its limitations and imposing accountability.
Keywords: Intelligence and Security Committee, intelligence accountability, intelligence oversight, United Kingdom, reforms, accountability
Mark Phythian is a professor of politics and international relations at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and the author, editor, or coeditor of nine books, including Intelligence in an Insecure World (with Peter Gill).
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- [UNTITLED]
- About the Contributors
- National Security Intelligence
- National Security and Public Anxiety: Our Changing Perceptions
- Theories of Intelligence
- The Sources and Methods of Intelligence Studies
- Getting Intelligence History Right: Reflections and Recommendations from the Inside
- Assessing Intelligence Performance
- The Rise of the U.S. Intelligence System, 1917–1977
- The Rise and Fall of the CIA
- British Strategic Intelligence and the Cold War
- Signals Intelligence in War and Power Politics, 1914–2010
- The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- Intelligence and Law Enforcement
- The Evolution of International Collaboration in the Global Intelligence Era
- The Dilemma of Open Sources intelligence: Is OSINT Really Intelligence?
- The Troubled Inheritance: The National Security Agency and the Obama Administration
- Human Source Intelligence
- United Nations Peacekeeping Intelligence
- Privatized Spying: The Emerging Intelligence Industry
- Guarding the Border: Intelligence and Law Enforcement in Canada's Immigration System
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Addressing “Complexities” in Homeland Security
- The Intelligence Analysis Crisis
- Competitive Analysis: Techniques for Better Gauging Enemy Political Intentions and Military Capabilities
- Decision Advantage and the Nature of Intelligence Analysis
- Intelligence Analysis in an Uncertain Environment
- The Dilemma of Defense Intelligence
- The Policymaker-Intelligence Relationship
- On Uncertainty and the Limits of Intelligence
- The Perils of Politicization
- Leadership in an Intelligence Organization: The Directors of Central Intelligence and the CIA
- The Future of FBI Counterintelligence through the Lens of the Past Hundred Years
- Treason: “ 'Tis Worse than Murder”
- The Challenges of Counterintelligence
- Catching an Atom Spy: MI5 and the Investigation of Klaus Fuchs
- Covert Action, Pentagon Style
- Covert Action: United States Law in Substance, Process, and Practice
- Covert Action: Strengths and Weaknesses:
- The Role of Defense in Shaping U.S. Intelligence Reform
- Intelligence and the Law in the United Kingdom
- Rethinking the State Secrets Privilege
- Accounting for the Future or the Past?: Developing Accountability and Oversight Systems to Meet Future Intelligence Needs
- “A Very British Institution”: The Intelligence and Security Committee and Intelligence Accountability in the United Kingdom
- The Politics of Intelligence Accountability
- Ethics and Professional Intelligence
- Intelligence in the Developing Democracies: The Quest for Transparency and Effectiveness
- The Intelligence Services of Russia
- The German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND): Evolution and Current Policy Issues
- Israeli Intelligence: Organization, Failures, and Successes
- Intelligence and National Security: The Australian Experience
- Glossary
- Index
