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Securing State Secrets

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The impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks underscore profound unresolved ethical and policy issues relating to post 9/11 electronically enabled intelligence collection in liberal democracies. In this chapter, six different ‘impacts’ are used as a frame to assess the future of whistle blowers post Snowden and the role technology will play in both the hindering and/or facilitating the leaking of security intelligence collection. In other words, from a policy perspective, what role will technology play in facilitating or restraining ‘future Snowdens’ in revealing state secrets?

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Notes

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    A full original version of the USA Patriot Act which has been amended and extended several times during the Bush Administration can be found in, ODNI (2009). Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book. Office of General Counsel, ODNI Washington DC, 451–489.

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    ASIO or the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is Australia’s domestic intelligence service similar in many ways to the UK’s MI5. The AFP or Australian Federal Police is Australia’s national police force with the responsibility of investigating serious national and international crimes.

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  1. Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Australia

    Patrick F. Walsh

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  1. Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Robert Dover

  2. Department of War Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

    Huw Dylan

  3. Department of War Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

    Michael S. Goodman

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Walsh, P.F. (2017). Securing State Secrets. In: Dover, R., Dylan, H., Goodman, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53675-4_10

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