I risk to maintain that nouns "ethic" and "ethics", the adjective "ethical" and the adverb "ethically" are among the most frequently used words in our social network. However, are CI professionals able to behave ethically at all? I've asked my Polish students this question yesterday ( http://fedcba.ning.com/group/bi/forum/topics/naturalna-potrzeba ), too. I'm afraid that we can compare CI professionals to corporate executives just scolded by President Obama [Obama Calls for 'Common Sense' on Executive Pay ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/us/politics/05pay.html?th&emc=th )]. Nearly a year ago, I quoted another NYT article ( http://www.e-mentor.edu.pl/komentarze.php?numer=24&id=527 ): "There is nothing wrong with it - it's not illegal, [...] But it's ugly." Just this -- where the strongest work ethic doesn't suffice, law enforcement has to appear, isn't that so? Should therefore CI community be ruled by INTELLIGENCE REFORM AND TERRORISM PREVENTION ACT OF 2004 ( http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/pdf/108-796/108-796_int... )? Are you sure that CI community hasn't been ruled by this act already? :-)
Hi, Vivek, you mean Glomarization [the terms "Glomar response," and "Glomarization" are used to describe an agency's response when they can neither confirm nor deny whether records exist ( http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer.htm )], don't you? ;-)
Hi,Tadeusz, if you don't mind I would take the picture for my public report about ethics and morality of CI professionals? It's a pity, but in spite of some Polish roots of mine, I don't read in Polish. May be You have some information in english about the subject?
All,
Thanks for your comments. They stimulated me to think about when I respond affirmatively to implicit or explicit requests for help. Here are my "10 rules" for helping. As I wrote them, I realized that they generally apply whether the subject i…
Shiela,
I never endorsed unethical practices.
I did NOT advocate unethical practices.
What I did was defend a Nation whose comitted people in an agency, post Sept 11, go out of their way to defend Democracy.
I did NOT advocate any clandestine op…
Shiela,
I never endorsed unethical practices.
I did NOT advocate unethical practices.
What I did was defend a Nation whose comitted people in an agency, post Sept 11, go out of their way to defend Democracy.
I did NOT advocate any clandestine op…
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There are some who can't detect my sarcasm over the Internet, which is fine. For the record, I'm not a fan of any "intelligence" programs that have a now documented, practically-official policy of war crimes. That's not intelligence. For a review of…
Fantastic - that's the point of this umbrella concept, to connect more people in more places with a variety of events in the concept of intelligence. I can't wait to see what you've come up with.
Thinking of placing the outcome from our UK panel event on 9/3 into this group and on Ning to get people to add their comments after the event and add to the anticipated rich tapestry of comment being generated given the calibre of audience, panel c…
I shall explore how others could aprticipate by bringing that age old media, namely conference call, or more one dimensional, we place the outcomes on Ning and get others to comment as they see fit with the PowerPoint used and everything? What do pe…
Vivek, I think yoou have just reinforced the point I was making and have done it much better than I. If you think that Mossad/CIA/MI6/KGB etc has any legitimate connection with CI in the commercial context of doing day to day business then I really…
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Funny enough I asked a couple of questions which I sent directly to about 25 people in CI. It was a couple of very simple questions for some research for a piece I was doing.
I got two replies
Therefore, what do you think about the following?
Competitive Intelligence Code of the U.S. Fighting Force:
6 Code of Conduct V. a. When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number, and date of b…
Anyways Sheila,
I know Eric was fooling around.
See Competitive Intelligence in the Macro perspective.
But what is there to be ashamed about CIA/RAW/KGB/MI6/BND etc.,
In Competitive Intelligence, BND is legendary for its Project RAHAB..
PPP Mod…
Attend and participate in a panel debate on 9/3 including the UK's leading academic authority on competitive intelligence, former Mars and McKinsey practitioner, Orange, Customer Insight Solutions and the Institute of Competitive Intelligence provid…