“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build, a defense against repetition” (Wiesenthal). Simon Wiesenthal has shown moral courage throughout his life, whether it comes from growing up or what he has become. He is a Jewish Austrian survivor of the holocaust and deciated is time to gathering information and tracking down fugitive Nazi war criminals such as Adolf Eichmann. By seeking justice and not…
complaints that flow in daily to police departments however, these are generally only the tip of the iceberg. Therefore, proper complaints investigation and discipline is essential to ensure public confidence in police and ensure justice in police operations (Prenzler, 2013, p. 63). Testing of applicants is another standard mechanism for attempting to prevent misconduct. These screen mechanisms include panel interviews, where questions about personal ethics and ethical scenarios can be…
surfing or opening emails from fear of infection. • Perpetrator: The malicious attack is attributed to Shadow brokers. This organization operates in secrecy and is attributed for utilizing obtained information for exposing government agencies covert operations against its populace. • Attack scenario: See above • Risk…
By the end of World War II, only the Soviet Union and the United States were in a superior position. The Soviets only could boast of the Soviet army, which conquered Eastern Europe and militarily kept power. However, the United States not only became a superpower militarily, with a powerful army, navy, and air force, they were the only nation with nuclear weapons. Due to events at the time, the 3 presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy) all perceived the threat of the spread of Communism…
pre-1989 consensus was no, however, after the Panama Defense Forces (PDF) under Noriega killed a Marine, captured and brutalized a Navy Lieutenant along with his wife, as well as threats of sexual abuse, President Bush could no longer turn a blind eye. Operation Just Cause was thrust into effect, citing the US’s right to protect its citizens and its right to protect the waterway (Panama Canal) via the 1979 Panama Canal Treaties as justification for the invasion, and the reasoning behind the…
The Looking Glass War, written by John Le Carré, is a spy fiction novel that takes place in the early 1960s. An obsolete British military intelligence organization, known as “The Department,” comes across information that assumes the Russians have placed missiles along the West Germany border, and this is seen as a direct threat to Great Britain. The Department, without sufficient resources and staffed by former military intelligence officers left over from World War II, pays a civilian…
This plan, called Operation Mongoose, was a series of assassination attempts to try and overthrow the Cuban government without direct military invasion partly due to their perceived threat and partly as payback for the Bay of Pigs . These events only increased the paranoia…
In the most recent decades the criminal justice system has made significant strides and has grown tremendously. In result, numerous people have been interested in pursuing criminal justice careers which has resulted in an dramatic increase on the amount of research on the criminal justice system and it’s related topics (Copes and Pogrebin, 2012). Therefore, we now have the ability to know more about how the criminal justice organizations function on a day to day basis. In Voices From Criminal…
Chapter 3: The White House Beat: Savannah Guthrie’s rise to prominence as a White House correspondent for NBC News, covering the Obama administration and the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. A New Challenge in Washington Savannah left her job at KVOA in 2000 and moved to Washington, D.C., to pursue a law degree at Georgetown University. She graduated magna cum laude in 2002 and joined the prestigious law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where she specialized in white-collar criminal…
Operation Fast and Furious focused on Phoenix area gun dealers and allowed cartel members to purchase over 2,000 firearms. None of the weapons were fitted with tracking devices and were moved quickly out of the area and into the hands of members of the Mexican drug cartels. The operation began two years after the end of Operation Wide Receiver and only lasted for approximately two years, from 2009 through 2011, when news media exposed that two of the weapons from the operation were found…