Director of National Intelligence

decide themselves to hold back individual viewpoints that deviate from the apparent consensus of the group. George Tenet, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did not believe there was a Saddam Hussein-Osama bin Laden link. He and the CIA did not find any conclusive evidence to support this claim. Tenet was also aware that the data presented in the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was flawed and inconclusive yet he did not put up a serious fight to voice his concerns, especially…

is arguably the most important part of American national security, because the intent to protect the nation cannot be carried out without the right strategies being enacted, codified into law and then implemented. Public policy itself is a process by which actions are taken by the executive branches of a nation to address issues identified, through the use of practices consistent with the law and customs of the nation. In policy making for national security issues, one of the most important…

One of the essential elements is the improvement in Homeland Security, instead of create a new agency responsible of the management of the security within the borders, the Commission proposed to transform the FBI in the agency specialized in national security. This element aroused in answer to the critics that the Federal agency had received because of their management of the terrorist threat. Therefore, the FBI would be considered as the referent in homeland security, with the incorporation…

Marisa Taylor is an investigative reporter and Jonathan Landay is a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, based in Washington, DC. The National Security Agency (NSA) is turning down requests from individuals who want to find out whether the agency is holding records of their telephone communications. Simply answering yes or no, the NSA argues, is classified information that would jeopardize the effectiveness of its data-collection program. That means that…

The U.S. government has a long history of using various kinds of surveillance tools to monitor citizens’ activities. During the Cold War, the FBI ran a domestic counterintelligence program called COINTELPRO protect the national security from hostile foreign threats; however, the program evolved into an effort to suppress non-violent protest groups and political dissidents with an array of illegal activities (Hutchinson). COINTELPRO negatively influenced the Civil Rights and Black Power movements…

States currently faces many challenges, including a very widespread lack of confidence in its ability to carry out its many missions competently as well as legally. Counterintelligence (CI) is one of the most vital arenas within the United States Intelligence Community (IC), and is aimed at achieving the main goal of protecting the country, both from insider threats and foreign intruders. It is our nation’s shield and sword. While many improvements to this vital system have been made or need to…

Soviet Union. America fears that the Soviets 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…

obtained. This failure would eventually lead to the Watergate Scandal and the cover-up. The mind behind the Watergate Scandal was G. Gordon Liddy, who was CREEP’s General counsel and director of intelligence. His plan began with burglarizing the office of Lawrence O’ Brien. O’ Brien was the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the democratic party’s fundraising body for elections. A team of Cuban refugees were led by a Bernard Barker to break into the Watergate building and offices.…

Edward Snowden Thesis: Edward Snowden releasing government files was a good thing, for some. Edward Snowden was part of a series of leaks of government intelligence files that were linked to multiple different countries, countries that include Australia, England, and the U.S. Snowden first released the leaks in May 2013, Snowden had initially released them to the British Newspaper, The Guardian. One of the larger secrets that Snowden released was an order for Verizon which forced them to…

This part of my paper will analyze the impact of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) primarily on Information-Sharing. There were many trajectories to the law after the attack of September 11th 2001. We shifted our attention on security and protection of the United State, but above all we shifted attention in preventing Al-Qaeda from creating any such attack against the U.S. in so doing IRTPA was created to improve the Justice department, the FBI and CIA ability…