The National Security Agency Pros and Cons
What if there was someone who looked at every telephone call in America and could help find and kill terrorists just by tapping into computers, telephones, and other technologies? Before World War 2 we as Americans would probably think of this as just another rumor. Today this has come true. The NSA or formally known as the National Security Agency has become one of the most controversial topics in the USA and other countries like England. What is the NSA? The NSA is a military program that searches telephones, emails, text messages and other technologies to help prevent terrorist attacks. The NSA has been around for a large part of America and has since grown to be a strong military advantage but …show more content…
The NSA started out as the Cipher Bureau of Military intelligence. In July 1917 right before the first World War, Herbert O. Yardley was assigned to command the intelligence agency. After the war was over Henry Stimson who at the time was secretary of state decided that the agency was not worth the money and decided to get rid of the Cipher Bureau of Military Intelligence. They decided to do away with Cipher Bureau of Military Intelligence because the program had questionable policies like having too much public access to information coming in and out of the United States. Heiligenstein wrote in his article A Brief History of the NSA: From 1917 to 2014, “he cited moral opposition to its increasing surveillance, though his reasoning may also have been partly financial. In any case, Hoover’s administration did not see the need for peacetime surveillance and the agency was shuttered.” (Heiligenstein) The NSA was then created after the second World War, when the secretive agency decoded the Japanese’s secret code called the JN-25 code that led to the Americans attacking the Japanese at Midway. After the war was over the President, Harry Truman, …show more content…
There are things we should know about the NSA before we decide on whether we like the NSA or not. Some say that the NSA should be eliminated from government programs because the NSA is taking away Americas freedom to privacy through technology. They also do not want to fund the government because the NSA is also leaking information that not only has United States Citizens in them, but also because other countries can get to information from the United States now that these files have been leaked. Others Find that the NSA is very beneficial to America and that we should keep this program because without it America cannot be protected from terrorists and other forms of enemies. They also cannot be protected from United States citizens who want to hurt or commit acts of violence within the
What if there was someone who looked at every telephone call in America and could help find and kill terrorists just by tapping into computers, telephones, and other technologies? Before World War 2 we as Americans would probably think of this as just another rumor. Today this has come true. The NSA or formally known as the National Security Agency has become one of the most controversial topics in the USA and other countries like England. What is the NSA? The NSA is a military program that searches telephones, emails, text messages and other technologies to help prevent terrorist attacks. The NSA has been around for a large part of America and has since grown to be a strong military advantage but …show more content…
The NSA started out as the Cipher Bureau of Military intelligence. In July 1917 right before the first World War, Herbert O. Yardley was assigned to command the intelligence agency. After the war was over Henry Stimson who at the time was secretary of state decided that the agency was not worth the money and decided to get rid of the Cipher Bureau of Military Intelligence. They decided to do away with Cipher Bureau of Military Intelligence because the program had questionable policies like having too much public access to information coming in and out of the United States. Heiligenstein wrote in his article A Brief History of the NSA: From 1917 to 2014, “he cited moral opposition to its increasing surveillance, though his reasoning may also have been partly financial. In any case, Hoover’s administration did not see the need for peacetime surveillance and the agency was shuttered.” (Heiligenstein) The NSA was then created after the second World War, when the secretive agency decoded the Japanese’s secret code called the JN-25 code that led to the Americans attacking the Japanese at Midway. After the war was over the President, Harry Truman, …show more content…
There are things we should know about the NSA before we decide on whether we like the NSA or not. Some say that the NSA should be eliminated from government programs because the NSA is taking away Americas freedom to privacy through technology. They also do not want to fund the government because the NSA is also leaking information that not only has United States Citizens in them, but also because other countries can get to information from the United States now that these files have been leaked. Others Find that the NSA is very beneficial to America and that we should keep this program because without it America cannot be protected from terrorists and other forms of enemies. They also cannot be protected from United States citizens who want to hurt or commit acts of violence within the