Central Intelligence Agency

amongst the Intelligence Community (IC), and growing amount of media sources investigating and reporting, plausible deniability is now nearly impossible to achieve (Clark 2007,…

understand what can be considered an intelligence failure, it is important to understand the meaning of the word intelligence. In the world of the intelligence community the term intelligence simply refers to information policy makers need to make informed decisions on how to keep the nation safe. According to the Central Intelligence Agency there are four types of intelligence: Current intelligence, which is used when looking at day to day activities; estimate intelligence, which is used to…

be able to gather lots of information and intelligence from around the world that concerns its own prosperity. Currently, the most dominant channel of gathering foreign information is the CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency was created to gather information on foreign policy information in order to keep Americans safe. However, CIA agents also have a huge impact on foreign perception of Americans Citizens. Given their failure to use foreign intelligence to keep our country safe, as well as…

members of Congress has received a special intelligence report called the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). The NIE is a document that is written for those who are the policymakers within Congress to give them an understanding or estimate of what is going on in a particular country, region or better understanding whatever is needed to be answer by the Intelligence Community (IC). This document allows for the policymakers and analyst within the Intelligence Community to collaborate to…

Republican party to mislead or divert the public’s attention from the truth. Similarly, in his memoirs Years of Trial and Hope written eight years later, Truman recounted that “The country had reason to be proud and have confidence in our security agencies. They had kept us almost totally free of sabotage and espionage during the…

When discovering the world as a child, I always just assumed that all the plants and animals that I saw had always been here. Even today it is hard to comprehend how different plants and animals have migrated across the world. Each plant and animal affects the delicate environmental structure we learned about as children. Even the circle of life is more complicated as I get older. That 's why learning about other cultures and environments is detrimental to our growth as individuals. In this…

There is no contesting that there is major debate surrounding warfare of any kind, whether in terms of man-to-man combat warfare on battle grounds, modern warfare with the use of more advanced technology such as UAVs and drones or the more contemporary cyber warfare. Debates concerning the legality, morality and cost-benefit analysis of these kinds of warfare has filled the rhetoric of policy analysts, scholarly academics and national leaders on international frontiers. With the Middle-East and…

The manual was developed to aid British SOE Operatives in resisting interrogation when they were captured behind Nazi lines. Although, this quotes central idea is applicable to the administration of interrogation techniques as well. Imperatively, the quote explains that brute force is comparable to subtle, often inconspicuous, techniques and should not be discarded as impractical. When interrogating…

“Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as Director of CIA, David H. Petraeus”. Since the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was not able to keep his personal digital content private, can anyone expect their email to be protected from law enforcement without a warrant? Why should anyone have to face such embarrassment about their personal life when it’s not affecting their career? Whether…

Bureaucracies Try to imagine the affect on the United States without places such as the Centers for Disease Control, NASA, U.S. Army, police departments, Coast Guard, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Social Security Administration, and the State Department. These organizations are essential to our government and our society in the United States. All though they are all distinct in their own ways,…