Agency

For many years I’ve learned that we have special agencies such as the FBI and CIA, yet I’ve always referred to them as undercover policeman. Ever since I can remember I knew that the work being done by the FBI and the CIA was something that was considered to be very private that the public was never made aware of. Until this point I had no knowledge that the secret/ KGB/NKVD even existed, and it really excites me. I hope it excites you too. For many, many years various countries have created…

military campaigns between its primary adversaries, the United States and the Soviet Union. America fears that the Soviets push to globalize communism is a direct attack on America and democracy; therefore, the U.S. utilizes their Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to coordinate covert operations in an effort contain the threat of world domination. Consequently, the conflict becomes known as the Cold War, and CIA Director, Harry Rositzke later describes the ordeal as, “a holy war against the…

PRISM is a massive surveillance program established by the United States National Security Agency in 2007 with the goal of obtaining and analyzing information on criminal activity. In 2013, the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the extent of the National Security Agency’s operations were much larger than previously realized (BBC News). It is now known that the National Security Agency has obtained information from the servers of major internet companies (e.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft…

What the NSA does for Americans? The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence organization of the united government, responsible for global monitoring, collection and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. One of many duties that the NSA does is to track people and collecting billions of their records everyday. The kind of Data that the NSA collect is Website visits, Internet Searches, Phone calls, Skype calls, Emails, Text messages…

international terrorism against the United States on behalf of a foreign power. But in 2013, a young contractor/whistleblower named Edward Snowden released a series of detailed disclosures of internal documents to the public about the NSA (National Security Agency) regarding its spying techniques on international and domestic activities using the said law. The article written by Bruce Schneider in the IEEE journal for the September 2015 Issue “Ubiquitous Surveillance and Security” focuses on the…

to create an intelligence organization focused primarily on global monitoring, collection, and processing of data information for counterintelligence and foreign intelligence purposes. This intelligence organization is called the National Security Agency (NSA) and was established in 1972 by President Truman. The NSA had few issues with the American people, up until 2013, when the Guardian newspaper reported that the NSA was collecting the telephone and email records of tens of millions…

Security Council in matters related to National Security and make recommendations to the NSC of intelligence activities. The CIA responds to national intelligence request by DHS in addition to other standing orders they receive. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), involves the producing and managing of foreign military intelligence. Their mission “is to provide timely, objective, all-source military intelligence to policy makers, to US armed forces around the world,”…

The National Security Agency (NSA) has collected and analyzed the contents of emails, text messages, and mobile and landline telephone calls from nine Americans for every one foreign person it has targeted. Their main mission is “preventing foreign adversaries from gaining access to sensitive or classified national security information.”(https://www.nsa.gov/about/mission/) To simplify, the initial mission was to keep America safe from the foreign. They’re responsible for the protection of U.S.…

In today’s society some people feel that our First Amendment is being violated by the National Security Agency. Some even question what even is the purpose of the NSA and why our government needs it. The National Security Agency was established November 4, 1952 during President Harry Truman’s term. The main purpose of the NSA back then was to crack codes during World War two. Playing a big role during that time for the success of guarding off U-Boats in the North Atlantic and getting the upper…

Ever since the beginning of the space race the United States has been one of the premier space agencies in the world. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is a government run program that started in 1958 to better understand what lies beyond Earth’s atmosphere. One of their biggest feats was putting a man on the moon. This virtually won us the space race and put us at the forefront of space technology and research. Many thing have changed since Neil Armstrong first stepped…