Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Who wouldn’t spend a couple billion dollars if it meant that acts like 9/11 or large massacres could be avoided? Proponents of mass surveillance claim that they do just that. If systems like the NSA actually had a positive track record of doing this there may be far less retaliation to their disobedient methods. In 2013, a government review began on these surveillance programs and “That winter, a panel set up by Obama to review the NSA 's operations concluded that…

effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” (Cornell University of Law). The Fourth Amendment states its main idea in this statement and through it American citizens and their belongings and records are protected from surveillance, searches, and seizures. However, in today’s digital world government officials have used what could be called an unconstitutional approach to the Fourth Amendment, causing them to monitor phone conversations. There have also been…

continued to slowly remove the freedoms of American citizens in small increments. The USA Patriot Act of 2001 removed the freedom of privacy from law abiding citizens of the United States. The second amendment right of freedom to bear arms has been continually under siege since the gun…

an attempt to reduce these tensions in the Geneva Summit of 1955 by Dwight D. Eisenhower where he had proposed the open-skies proposal. The proposal intended for the U.S and the U.S.S.R to trade military base maps to allow each other to act on aerial surveillance. The U.S.S.R had denied the proposal, bringing the summit to an end. However, the Geneva Summit promised that another summit would take place in 1960. Unfortunately, the U-2 incident would remarkably change the outcome of the…

He was a former contractor for the CIA. Snowden left the United States after giving out information to reporters about government surveillance. He told how the government watched all phone calls and internet use in the country. Snowden was given asylum in Russia, but he faces charges of espionage for his actions against the government. Michael Scherer’s “Number Two Edward Snowden The…

Fifteen years ago, the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars. Few of us had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and ISIS didn’t even exist. We deported half the number of people we do today. Our surveillance state was a fraction of its current size. And — perhaps hardest to believe — we didn’t have to take off our shoes to get through airport security. America’s involvement in the War on Terror — prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks — resulted in a dramatic change in our…

Princeton University and George Washington Law School. Under the Eisenhower administration the brothers gained power within the United States with John Foster Dulles becoming the Secretary of State and Allen Dulles becoming the Director of Central Intelligence. John Foster and Allen Welsh Dulles were born to third generation Presbyterian minister Allen Macy Dulles and his wife Edith Foster. John Foster and Allen Welsh were the eldest of the Dulles’ five children and received a strict…

According to BBC News, in June of 2013 the story broke through the newspaper, the Guardian that the United States National Security Agency (NSA), was spying on foreign leaders, people of power both in the US as well as other countries, and millions of Americans. On going stories also revealed that the NSA was collecting data from various allies such as Greece, France, and Italy. They also collected data from allies outside of Europe such as India, Japan, and South Korea (Edward Snowden: Leaks…

a quote that I read by Edward Snowden, “The FBI is creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around”, it caught my attention because I believe Apple is putting on line their right intentions to act correct morally and legally in their position for our individual privacy than the FBI. If Apple grants FBI a bypassing security passcode there would be a set of dangerously example of abuse from the government in my opinion. Law enforcement have…

from entering American soil or else he would be arrested for various reasons. In May of 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified documents of PRISM (Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management) which was an electronic surveillance program that he had access to. The public was soon aware of the program, leaving Snowden to be considered a traitor to his country. Edward Snowden’s actions can be compared to George Orwell’s 1984 characters and events, and by observing the…