Defense Intelligence Agency

On August 01, 2014, President Barack Obama addressed in a press conference concerning the assigned Senate Committee 's report on the Central Intelligence Agency involving torture used in interrogation. “We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.” (Obama) The report was completed and a summary was released to the public December 2014. Since then, the use of torture has been on the minds of Americans and discussed…

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 infidels, a defense of free God-fearing mean against the atheistic Communist system.” (Kinzer) Throughout the 50’s, the…

exploits of Israeli intelligence from the country’s founding in 1948 to today. Instead of moving through the history chronologically, the book looks at the history through various stories and examples of intelligence successes and failures. The book also gives insight into the other major and minor organizations that play key roles in providing intelligence and protecting Israel: Shin Bet, the Israeli equivalent of the FBI; Aman, military intelligence; Lakam, scientific intelligence; Caesarea,…

presidency and the corruption of the CIA. The Soviet Union collapse marked the beginning of corruption in the CIA. The director of the CIA was George Tenet, who was very close to George W. Bush. Tenet was seen by the public as “an honest broker of intelligence”, meanwhile in private he would tell people what they wanted to hear, then go to others and tell them the opposite of it. One of the main reasons that Tenet stayed on as the director of the CIA during George W. Bush’s presidency was due to…

Homeland Security Intelligence and Capabilities History has shown the importance of the intelligence community directed towards homeland security in and around the United States of America. Its capabilities have grown exponentially over the past couple decades, especially with the use of the internet. Yet, there are limitations that the U.S. still deals with to this day in order to support these efforts. The homeland security enterprise also has capabilities, but there are challenges…

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…

terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, many issues were identified within the Intelligence Community (IC), namely that information had not been shared between agencies or with local law enforcement apparatuses in order to piece together the looming threat. In order to fill this significant gap in security and to strengthen U.S. counterterrorism efforts, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) created numerous organizations to compensate for the lack of…

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…

assess the impact of Intelligence reform on the Global War on Terror. The research question is as follows: ??What is the impact of post-September 11th, 2001, intelligence reform on the Global War on Terror?? Secondary research questions might include: ?What is the impact of post-September 11th, 2001, emphasis on human intelligence on the Global War on Terror?? As well, another avenue of research could include: ?What is the impact of post-September 11th, of signals intelligence on the Global War…

creation of government agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and the KGB had been formed with the purpose of through secrecy operate in other countries with the goal of infiltrating, influencing, or interfere with events that occurred for the purpose of seeing ideal results that best suit foreign interests. Through secrecy nations had engaged…