Federal Bureau of Prisons

Since the government is invading our privacy it’s like having them watching our every move and constantly looking through our photo’s, Facebook messages, and text messages. For example when the FBI wanted Apple to unlock a terrorist phone so that they could look at the text messages. Apple informed the FBI that if they unlock that phone then they would be forced to unlock all of the phones. If they did this then hackers or the government could get a hold of something they don't need to know…

Surveillance Act(FISA) of 1978. The main purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is to provide jurisdictive guidance of intelligence activities in a secure, classified setting. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is make of Federal judges that are selected by the United States Supreme Court Chief Justice. (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 2017). Oversight for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is provided by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of…

The Witness Protection Program How would you feel if you and your family would have to leave your home and friends behind? All because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Your deleted from the world, you no longer exist. One minute your Christopher Torres the next your James Austin. You are now in WITSEC otherwise known as the witness protection program. An organization created to protect you from those who want you dead. Gerald Shur is a well-known man in the WITSEC for…

Should Apple help the FBI? After the San bernardino shooting the FBI needed to get call files from the shooters phone. The FBI decided to go to Apple for help in getting those files. Unexpectedly Apple refused to decrypt the files and the FBI had to find another company. Apple should of helped the FBI even though it does invade the privacy of the people. The FBI was trying keep another attack from happening and Apple was just slowing them down. I think that Apple should of done it even though…

UFO sightings have been on the rise all over the world but one particular U.S state is getting more attention than usual. More than 5, strange alien sightings have been detected in Florida this past week. Baffled residents everywhere keep turning in mysterious videos yet no explanation has yet been given. WITNESSES REPORT MULTIPLE UFO SIGHTING IN FLORDIA A witness who wants to remain unknown reported a series of weird events to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Based in the U.S, MUFON is the…

In Bill Bigelow’s A People’s History for the Classroom, Bigelow offers a lesson on terrorism. He opens up the chapter by discussing America’s reaction to 9/11 and how President George W. Bush responded to the attacks on the twin towers. Bush used the words “terror” “terrorism” “terrorists” 32 times in his speech, but never once addressed what that means. Bigelow doesn’t offer us his definition of what he thinks terrorism is, instead he allows his students to reflect upon that word, and come up…

and the 2005 Hurricane Katrina Disaster. Furthermore, these tragedies have stuck in the minds of the average American citizens since its inceptions, and lot of it is due to the incompetent response that American citizens faced from the ARC and the federal government. Additionally, many believe that the ARC board members should investigated the potential leaders of the organization for possible unethical behavior before his or her hiring. However, after the September 11th terrorist attack,…

by David Morris in FBI Will Help Local Police Unlock iPhones is that now that the FBI has the ability to crack into the data stored on iPhones, the agency will utilize this capability in many situations, including local law enforcement cases and federal counter-terrorism cases. More specifically, Morris argues that there will be an increased number of iPhones that are broken into in order to investigate crimes. He writes, “The agency has since unlocked other phones, and, CBS reports, now ‘owns…

2002, the United States Coast Guard was moved from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Homeland Security. This move was conducted without any significant changes to the federal laws governing the operations, establishment and deployment of the Coast Guard. Titles 14 and 10 still provide the federal codes for the Coast Guard’s operation and availability to the Department of the Navy. The Department of the Navy provides the funding for training, equipment and…

Since 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center by Al Qaeda, terrorism has become a global threat and an important phenomenon both to the international community and in the United States. Many have argued that terrorism isn’t a new phenomenon because it started way beyond 9/11, and I agree, but the growing number of terror attacks shows that it is a major global security threat. In addition, the global death tolls caused by terror attacks have also increased. According to an NBC News article…