Defense Intelligence Agency

The testimony given by most of the witnesses was corroborated by secretly taped and recorded telephone conversations without which defense attorneys would have disputed the accusations and charges brought against the target. The affidavit did not state the specific methods of tapping the telephones but the following can be assumed: That several recording devices were used, whether digital…

“He was put into isolation for 47 days when the interrogation team traveled, and during his next interrogation, the team used enhanced techniques, including waterboarding.”Jeremy Ashkenas, Fairfield, Keller, Volpe. The CIA hides information from the government and they hide their tactics about torturing. They justify themselves and they make sure that the public does not know about any of it. The novel 1984 talks about the Ministry of Love and how they torture and isolate the people. They…

the 9/11 Commission Report was the deficiency of shared intelligence information between, local, state and federal agencies related to homeland security. Before 9/11, law enforcement intelligence was compartmentalized and disjointed. The FBI mainly dealt with domestic threats and the CIA mostly focused on foreign threats. I believe that the most significant function developed was “receiving and analyzing law enforcement information, intelligence, and other information relating to homeland…

The producers of 24 utilize American paranoia to the show’s advantage and have subsequently changed the nation’s perception of the word interrogation, its meaning, use, and popularity. Ever since the tragedy of September 11 attacks, The American public has become aware that the United States is no longer invulnerable to terrorist attacks. Nowadays, people think that interrogation and torture are the same because 24 imposed on viewers the idea that torture is the most effective type of…

an evaluation of this film, an extraordinary impact will be presented on those who watched it and did not know much about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. For those who watch this film as their only information of the situation and do no further intelligence gathering on the matter, they are going to be very misinformed. The conflict portrayed in the film was the hunting of Osama as stated earlier in this paper and it was shown extremely poorly within the film. For example, a big discretion…

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.…

to escape detainment, and to cover up his own trail. Philby was successful, and on June 27, 1951, J. Edgar Hoover, former director of the FBI, received a memorandum that read, “Wire dispatches on June 7 1951, state Maclean and Burgess have defected behind the Iron Curtain… Our files reflect a contact between M[a]clean and Alger Hiss on October 19, 1946… Both contacts have related solely to official business.” Burgess and Maclean fled at the seemingly perfect time, leaving their allies and foes…

This thesis hypothesizes that the repeatedly negative portrayal of the Intelligence Community, its agents, and it’s employees by prime time television shows is eroding the public’s confidence and trust in the IC. This topic must begin with a basic discussion of how prime time programming portrays the Intelligence Community, its agenda and its employees. Following this discussion, existing literature within the scope of this paper’s thesis can be divided into two main categories: general…

Article #1: Sinha, G. Alex. "NSA surveillance since 9/11 and the human right to privacy." Loyola Law ReviewWinter 2013: 861+. Academic OneFile. Web. 30 Nov. 2015. Summary: Alex Sinha is a Law Clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He used to be a research assistant for professor Smita Narula. Sinha has experience in the law and has been very open to sharing his thoughts on the NSA. Sinha’s is very against the NSA. His reason, the NSA is intruding on the…

The Central Intelligence Agency also known as the CIA was created by created by President Franklin D Roosevelt as an addition to the OSS or Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. William J. Donovan was elected by President Roosevelt to be the lead analyst of the new intelligence agency. Soon after World War two ended the OSS was abolished leaving the CIA as the main intelligence insight for the United States. After the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, Vice President Truman took office on…