Director of National Intelligence

The United States intelligence community (IC) is not perfect and is blamed for failing to predict several surprises in the form of attacks and uprisings around the world. These surprises are known as intelligence failures and are studied in every intelligence curriculum and intelligence agency within the IC. The IC is a fairly small community within the government; therefore the IC must assume calculated risks in how it operates during analysis and production. These calculated risks, in addition…

Today, the ICA’s National President is Liz Wall. The ICA has over 10,000 members and it aims to bring women together through common interests such as cooking, travelling, socialising and sewing, threading embroidery or creating other such crafts. In historic times it focused…

importance on treaties and regime approaches; instead opting for proactive, “efforts to deter and defend against WMD and missile threats.” [3] In 2003, the National Strategy to Combat WMD was signed by President Bush; which established three pillars: counter-proliferation, non-proliferation, and WMD consequence management. [4] On 21 November 2005, the National Counter-proliferation Center (NCPC) was founded to address chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons proliferation threats.…

To better understand the significance of intelligence provided by Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban missile crisis, it is of utmost important to examine the climate of the intelligence community in the United States leading up to the crisis. On September 19th, 1962, about a month before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) on “The military Buildup in Cuba” considered the possibility of the Soviet’s deployment of medium and intermediate-range…

The National Security Council The National Security Act of 1947 created the National Security Council. The next few paragraphs will further examine the functions and responsibilities of the National Security Council, the current domestic political environment pertaining to the border wall in Mexico, as well as the current threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and what role the National Security Council represents. National Security Council Background The National Security Act of…

failures conducted by the intelligence community (IC). These failures pertain specifically to the assessment of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which was the IC’s ultimate end state goal. The United States was not alone in its inaccuracies. In fact, it was a multinational effort. This short report will review the history leading up to the failures that played a major factor into the assessments. In addition, it will describe what specific intelligence subsets (INTs)…

During my 28-year law enforcement career, I have had a multitude of assignments, which have prepared me to excel as an Assistant Federal Security Director for Law Enforcement (AFSD-LE). I have significant experience working in local, state and federal law enforcement communities and a great understanding of the dynamics that drive each. As a member of TSA’s Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (OLE/FAMS) for the last 10-years and having multiple supervisory, field office and…

physically break down prisoners to gain intelligence for US forces. While gaining Intel is all well and good, this information should not come at the cost of dehumanizing prisoners. Admiral Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence is quoted in saying, “The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security."() Admiral Blair says…

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.…

collected to come to the conclusion that race is biological. “During the early 1930’s some in the field of psychology tried to justify socio-economical status by linking certain characteristics for instance criminal behavior, work ethic and intelligence to race, using a theory of genetic…