According to Adam Penenberg and Marc Barry, why do major U.S. companies often hire spies, or rather, “competitive intelligence” agents (1)? 2. The agency that hired Barry as a corporate spy belong ed to the Society of Com-petitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), a trade or ga ni za tion that prohibits its members from obtaining information by “misrepresentation or deception” (5). By what “loophole” in the law did Barry and his employer get around this rule? 3. We are told that the spying Barry did for his client was not illegal. Was it ethical? Why or why not?