Intelligence agency

There is no contesting that there is major debate surrounding warfare of any kind, whether in terms of man-to-man combat warfare on battle grounds, modern warfare with the use of more advanced technology such as UAVs and drones or the more contemporary cyber warfare. Debates concerning the legality, morality and cost-benefit analysis of these kinds of warfare has filled the rhetoric of policy analysts, scholarly academics and national leaders on international frontiers. With the Middle-East and…

Does Covert Action Belong in the Intelligence Community? Since I have been attending the National Intelligence University here at Defense Intelligence Agency, my definition of what intelligence is has changed several times in the course of 6 weeks. I came in thinking and believing that everything and anything that had intelligence involved in it was secretive stuff. In fact, that the entire intelligence community was on big community of James Bonds 007. After a couple of weeks passed, I…

When discovering the world as a child, I always just assumed that all the plants and animals that I saw had always been here. Even today it is hard to comprehend how different plants and animals have migrated across the world. Each plant and animal affects the delicate environmental structure we learned about as children. Even the circle of life is more complicated as I get older. That 's why learning about other cultures and environments is detrimental to our growth as individuals. In this…

has been fighting there has been a need for spies, intelligence, and secret movements. Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese warfare tactician and leader said, “hence it is only the enlightened and wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for purposes of spying and thereby they achieve greater results. Spies are the most important asset, because on them depends an army’s ability to march.” Also, “George Washington used his intelligence information in an effective manner to decide…

Snowden’s email. All brought together to show if Snowden is indeed a hero, traitor, or none of the above. For starters, who is Edward Snowden and what exactly is he being accused of. Edward Snowden is a 30­year old ex contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) . In May 2013, Snowden moved from his home in Hawaii to travel to Hong Kong. He was traveling there to reveal his secrets to the journalist Glenn Greenwald. At the time…

The Effects of 9/11 September 11th 2001 a day most people can remember where they were, how old they were, and even what they were wearing. This tragedy was seen as the first major attack on U.S soil since the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attacks. The United States had endured peace and Economic prosperity during the 1990’s until the “9/11” Terrorist attacks ( cite ). These attacks had major effects on America. There were major changes in government and national security, the economy,…

Former FBI agent Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. served undercover as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for twenty-one years. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the U.S. by Al Qaeda, Rodrigues was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center where he was then responsible for developing and implementing methods for capturing terrorists and collecting their intelligence. In his New York Times Bestseller, Hard Measures, Rodriguez discusses the controversial…

Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand in 1948), would later become the ECHELON system, managed by the National Security Agency (NSA). This ECHELON system placed “intercept stations…

Carter in 1978 “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was introduced to sanction procedures for requesting judicial approval for electronic surveillance and physical search of persons engaged in espionage or international terrorism against the United States on behalf of a foreign power. But in 2013, a young contractor/whistleblower named Edward Snowden released a series of detailed disclosures of internal documents to the public about the NSA (National Security Agency) regarding its…

“He was put into isolation for 47 days when the interrogation team traveled, and during his next interrogation, the team used enhanced techniques, including waterboarding.”Jeremy Ashkenas, Fairfield, Keller, Volpe. The CIA hides information from the government and they hide their tactics about torturing. They justify themselves and they make sure that the public does not know about any of it. The novel 1984 talks about the Ministry of Love and how they torture and isolate the people. They…