Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

(NSA) subcontractor, Edward Snowden sparked nationwide controversy after leaking top-secret surveillance information from the NSA to several media outlets. During his IT work for the NSA Snowden noticed the immense reach of NSA's everyday surveillance, so he began copying top-secret NSA documents and built a dossier on practices that he found invasive and unethical. His findings revealed that the NSA's surveillance programs were unconstitutional and infringed on the U.S citizens’ right to…

infamous terrorist attacks on the US, the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The expanded full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Require to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.” This act quickly caused controversy and sparked many debates about national security and civil liberties because it created legislative changes which significantly increased the surveillance and investigative powers of law enforcement…

In June 2013, former National Security Agency(NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, despite knowing he would face legal prosecution, revealed to reporters confidential information on global surveillance programs run by the United States' government. He leaked how the United States' government covertly collects personal online information, such as email messages and phone conversations, as part of anti-terrorism measures. According to Newsweek, 55 percent of United States' citizens lauded Snowden for…

increasingly popular, accessible, and advanced. Because of that increase in popularity among the people, the government realized that it needed to create an intelligence organization focused primarily on global monitoring, collection, and processing of data information for counterintelligence and foreign intelligence purposes. This intelligence organization is called the National Security Agency (NSA) and was established in 1972 by President Truman. The NSA had few issues with the American…

• Communications Act of 1934- an act To provide for the regulation of interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio, and for other purposes • Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act (1968 amended 1986)- Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, also known as the “Wiretap Act”:  prohibits the unauthorized, nonconsensual interception of “wire, oral, or electronic communications” by government agencies as well as private parties, …

national security, domestic surveillance is conducted by the US. Under domestic surveillance, the federal government can monitor a person 's private life, such as checking phone calls or acquiring personal data. With the rise of terrorism, the USA has increased its security surveillance on Americans. Due to devastating terrorist acts, such as September 11, the government has made its private monitorization laws much more strict, evidently in the creation of the USA Patriot Act. Horrified by the…

Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001) Act was enacted by Congress in 2001 in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and “vastly expanded the government's authority to spy on its own citizens, while simultaneously reducing checks and balances … and the ability to challenge government searches in court”, (ACLU, 2010). The act permits investigators to conduct searches, authorizes nationwide search warrants for terrorism (including electronic surveillance), and delay…

commits violent acts in support of some group, movement, or ideology, but who does so alone, outside of any command structure and without material assistance…

MI6. and the CIA. CSIS stands for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. CSIS was originally created out of the bill C-9 in 1984. Sir John A. McDonald set up the first CSIS like organisation in 1868. He created the Dominion Police which was in charge of protecting federal buildings. CSIS was created with the intentions to split the up the federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Before 1984, their was no proper intelligence agency in Canada. The RCMP were tasked with. The…

There are many current public policy issues that are surrounding the U.S today. To name a few that I believe are most important; Abortion, Gun Control, Immigration, Counter Terrorism, the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, and Privacy. I would like to discuss the Patriot Act because I feel that it is a topic of much debate and one that I am extremely, extremely familiar with. It also affects the last three public policy issues I mentioned and in a sense covers them. I…