Redefining the security paradigm to create an intelligence ethic

This paper argues that before any detailed ethical framework can be created the conceptualisation of the relationship between fundamental human rights and the ethical purpose of intelligence needs to be reconceived. That is, rather than intelligence being considered to exist in opposition to our rights, where one is balanced or traded against the other, it is ethical when it is used as a process to protect and provide for all of our most vital interests, and not prioritising one at the cost of another.