Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

However, the evidence shows that the benefits are not enough to justify the consequences. The United States government does not seek the best strategy of protecting foreign civilians. Instead, they attack open areas without knowing who is a legitimate target and who is not. They also have a tendency to organize an assault without first confirming that the target they are firing upon is in fact affiliated with a terrorist…

Protestant, Catholic, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Police Service of Northern Ireland, Omagh, McKevitt Background History and Operating Environment The Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), or Real IRA, is a U.S. State Department designated Foreign Terrorist Organization located in Northern Ireland. The British Government has also listed the RIRA as a…

Drone Warfare: The United States and their Aggressive Drone Policy in Afghanistan The United States has shifted its military strategies for taking out foreign enemies by reducing the number of boots they put on the ground and increasing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles referred to as drones. The use of drones is effective at sparing the number of U.S. soldiers and pilots being sent to deal with terrorist organizations (Grayson 2016). However it is ineffective in reducing the number of…

but not required, from the press (Friedman). The scandal also further divided the political parties, and helped to show a disagreement that made compromise and arrangement very difficult (Genovese). Congress created many acts because of the Watergate Scandal. Each of these acts were created to effectively lessen the powers that the president was given (Genovese). They were created so Congress could regain some of the power that they had lost. They increased their staff and fact-finding…

in this cryptic language as a precaution. In their world they needed to be be aware of being taped or bugged. Their father had instructed them “Speak like you have the Justice Department sitting on your shoulder” , they understood, act like people expect you to act, say the things you're expected to say. A week later Lee mentioned to John, “Did you happen to see the news?”, John “anything specific?”, “A reporter for Rolling Stone magazine died yesterday,…

Private Life, Public Terror Buildings crashing and falling down piece by crumbling piece, skies blackened by debris, smoke filling airways and making its way into lungs of those watching in horror, screams of children petrified in the wake of disaster, and tears cried for the very last time of lives taken much too soon in attack that will later be known as the worst to ever occur on American soil. This depiction was reality over 15 years ago when America experienced the attacks of September…

Pentagon in Washington, D.C. As a result, the United states’ government promptly introduced the Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, the PATRIOT Act, to the American Public. Consequently, In the years after the attack, many forms of media reenacted and alluded to the…

S. Constitution gives Federal Courts authority for judgments. Established on September 24, 1789 The Federal Judiciary Act created 13 courts, one for each colony. Each judge had to go around cities to take care of cases, because it was few laws it was possible, but within time this fact change as population started growing and the need for new laws grew, the quantity of…

All of this significantly challenged the practice of regarding employees as merely factors of production. The changes manifested as a spate of labor legislations such as the Equal Pay Act (1963), the Civil Rights Act (1964), Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970), and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (1974). The need to comply with such legislation increased the importance of the human resource…

Technology and media, the two main components in 1984’s dystopian society that are used by the government to effectively take control of the masses. Our current socio-political climate has shown strong links between the forewarnings of 1984’s totalitarian society and our own. Revelations from soldiers, like Chelsea Manning, or 3rd party contractors, such as the notorious, Edward Snowden are the tip of what has been going on behind closed doors from the likes of the government. The media’s, fair…