If you want to read about James Bond and car chases this is not the article for you. “Open to Inspection” by Lapham focuses on one of the biggest branches of bureaucracy …show more content…
They fail to do their jobs by being arrogant, lazy, and not using the knowledge that they are dealt with. I believe Lapham wrote the things he did to express his own personal opinion on spies but in a way that made it seem not biased. He presented facts but the vocabulary he used lead me to believe that some of the things he stated came from his own personal opinion. I don’t believe that Lapham’s article was anything ground breaking but it does raise one thought provoking question, what would the world be like if the CIA actually did their job? In my opinion, Lapham seems to like the idea of having spies but the execution by them is terrible. He’s not in conflict with the government watching us and other countries but is in conflict with the government obtaining so much information and all of that info going to waste. The most convincing fact that leads me to agree with Lapham’s point of view is a quote Lapham stated in his article which is "over the past decade, the federal government has devoted $533 billion to its acquisition". $533 billion dollars that have gone to a branch of government who doesn’t do their job and just sits around all day glorifying itself. It’s an absolute disgrace that even with so much money and all the knowledge in the world the people we expect to defend us are the ones who set us up for tragedy.
The invention of the drone has prevented many deaths from occurring and lessened the risk of a pilot going out to war. Unfortunately, before such a great invention failure has to be achieved and that’s what “Rise of Drones” by Rudolph Herzog describes. The article describes the creators of some of the first drones and the failures that occurred while testing their drones. Rudolph also inserts a fear that arose when these inventions were first being