Espionage

In the case of United States vs. Walter Liew, Liew is being charged with over 20 criminal counts, with one of them being misappropriation of trade secrets (Levine). Liew had gotten paid millions of dollars by a Chinese company to apprehend trade secrets of the American company Dupont in order to solidify the company in China. Liew, 56, living in California, received 28 million in order to bribe engineers and other employees for confidential paperwork that the Chinese company wanted. What was the…

The rights stated in the first amendment have always been challenged ever since the U.S. Constitution was established, this is especially true when it comes to the matter of freedom of speech. When it comes to being censored, modes of communication have been challenged with acts that restrict the freedom of speech and freedom of press. Due to restrictions, these modes are unable to successfully utilize their resources to their full capacity. Although we go back and forth with the argument…

process in order to be hired. This process includes extensive background checks, interviews with not only the applicants, but close friends and associates, as well as enduring a CI polygraph examination. According to Lowenthal, one of the biggest espionage problems stems from familiarity with co-workers, as it offers a false sense of security. This false blanket allows individuals to refuse to accept that a co-worker could potentially be working against them. An example of this is the famous…

everyone in America, and no one knew what was going to happen next. Terror struck America in an instant, and what happened next to the Japanese American families would change their lives forever. Some think the Japanese Americans were going to commit espionage and/or sabotage on the American citizens. This is why around 120,000 Americans from Japanese descent were sent to these internment camps in California, Idaho, Arkansas, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado. They had to leave everything…

war. The content of the letters criticized the war and advised the men not to go to war. He was later convicted under the Espionage Act. The government claimed that Schenck violated this act by his actions that could incite insubordination in the soldiers. Schenck then responded that the Espionage Act violated the First Amendment. The Supreme Court determined that the Espionage Act did not violate the First Amendment. “The Court then argued that "the character of every act depends upon the…

advantage in a military campaign. Nowadays, cyber espionage to obtain access to data bases is common. By using viruses or spyware hackers can invade military or governmental networks to get classified information in order to gain intelligence. An example was the cyber spy GhostNet supposedly used by China in 2009. According to the report presented by the National Security Institute (NSI) (2009), there is “documented evidence of a cyber espionage network—GhostNet—infecting at least 1,295…

World War One also known as the Great War happened during years 1914 to 1918. It involved nations from around the world killing more than twenty million people and destroying everything. The main reason besides the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand are nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and alliances. Many people believed that this war was caused by the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. It was the spark to the war but there are many other reasons that led to this war.…

There are three main elements of white-collar crucial for analyzing whether the defendant Julian Assange has committed a white-collar crime. The first element worth analyzing is the security fraud. Security fraud is an element which is associated with one committing crime aimed at infiltrating security issues and jeopardizing the efforts of security agencies of a state. As the main defendant in this case, Julian Assange has committed a white collar crime because of the fact that he leaked more…

The Government against Two: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s Trial begins with a synopsis of the trial against accused spy Brian Patrick Regan in January 2003. Regan was accused of espionage and providing classified information to Iraq, Libya and China and became the first espionage defendant to face execution since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953. The author, Atossa Alavi, describes the correlation between the new war on terrorism in the Regan case and the era of the Cold War in the Rosenberg…

leak documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald” of the Daily Mail (The Courage Foundation). These documents displayed evidence that the NSA and its partners carried out political and industrial espionage. After this disclosure, Snowden was charged by the U.S. government with theft and violation of the Espionage Act. Following the escaping arrest in Hong Kong, Snowden fled to Moscow in 2013 where he remains to this day, leaving the people in America to wonder what other illegal activities the NSA…