Yesterday’s visit to a conference of Joint Services Commission on Professional Ethics JSCOPE is sending me in some new directions. I had the opportunity to participate in the panel on intelligence ethics. I didn’t make this remark at the time: among the most basic ethical responsibilities of an analyst – or any writer – is to quote accurately and in context. Yet the CIA motto, carved in marble on the front door is a quote taken out of context.
I’ll write more on this whole topic as time goes by. I’ve already written about problems in the analytic culture and institutions in denial here and here.
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