Director of National Intelligence

think through problems, express opinions, or create a presentation rather; it finds out what the student was able to memorize through their school career. Even with its questionable format, I do think it does a good job at generalizing its taker’s intelligence. I’m sure almost all people who got a 36 on their ACT have gone on to be successful in their…

to the sovereignty and territorial integrity, as it involves interests that tend to be vital in the future, for the global powers". This statement reflects a national concern about the federal autonomy in the region and the real foreigners ' intentions. International´s interest in the Amazon Rainforest resources is the most important national security threat facing Brazilian sovereignty today because of the jungle unparalleled potential, which intensifies the external interest and forces…

(Kornbluh 158) * Intended to centralise both the gathering of intelligence and dispensing of repression (Kornbluh 158) * Aimed to eliminate opposition of all kinds (civilian dissent, political opposition, and international opposition, and internal opposition within the military government) (Kornbluh 159) Projects and measures carried out by the DINA * 13,500 were arrested and detained after the initial Junta coup * Turned National Stadium in Santiago Chile into a detention…

Before 2001 and the Patriot Act was intact, government intelligence gathering was a typical law enforcement approach where FBI agents built a case around supporting evidence, scarce what it is now. When the Patriot Act passed, law warranted electronic surveillance through cell phone, wire taps, granted access to…

The scandal involving President Nixon and many of his top aids took place over a total of 4 years and became known as the Watergate Affair. It involved many people, break ins, cover ups, corruption at the highest level of the American political system, and a man who would stop at nothing to achieve re-election. Watergate it’s self tested the faith of the American people in the democratic system and in the end led to the President losing the American peoples trust and support. From the…

In June 2013, former National Security Agency(NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, despite knowing he would face legal prosecution, revealed to reporters confidential information on global surveillance programs run by the United States' government. He leaked how the United States' government covertly collects personal online information, such as email messages and phone conversations, as part of anti-terrorism measures. According to Newsweek, 55 percent of United States' citizens lauded Snowden for…

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 the fact that Bush (41st) urged his son to keep Tenet. This gave some stability in CIA because the director…

involving the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand in 1948), would later become the ECHELON system, managed by the National Security Agency (NSA). This ECHELON system placed “intercept stations…

who received the call and what country they were in. There is no need for anyone to worry about having their conversation listened in on because the government has no interest in your everyday calls they only want to pinpoint possible threats to national…

The conflict between the United States and the Middle East has been waging for more than a decade. America has found a new types of criminal activity throughout this time; specifically combatting terrorism. This situation is not as simple as it has been in the past, where people would single out a specific demographic of individuals and categorize them as the “enemy”. However, we can currently see U.S. citizens stereotyping Muslim-Americans throughout our daily lives, ignorantly muttering broken…