Intelligence agency

While whistleblowing is deemed as wrong and harmful, it is necessary in order to report the fraud and deceit that goes on behind our backs. Edward Snowden is one of the most known whistleblowers of our time, since his case happened so recently. Snowden didn’t release the documents for personal benefits, but for the citizens of the United States. He put his life on the line to expose what the government is doing behind our backs, and for that reason, I think his crimes should be pardoned. Edward…

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American privacy activist, computer professional, former CIA employee, and former government contractor who leaked classified information from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013. The information revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments. (wikipedia, n.d.) Edward Snowden was working as a technical contractor…

guilty of neither. Glenn Greenwald, journalist and former constitutional lawyer, vehemently defended Edward Snowden against the espionage charges, declaring “[Snowden] could have - but chose not - sold the information he had to a foreign intelligence service for vast sums of money, or covertly passed it to one of America's enemies, or worked at the direction of a foreign government. That is espionage. He did none of those things” (Greenwald). Since whistleblowers are not spies, they…

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was created by the United States Congress with the Passing of the Foreign Intelligence 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…

Kenneth Weinstein came across a transcript as the speaker for a discussion held by Hudson on defense technology in a globalized market. Weinstein identified that "one of the most important work -- parts of the work we do here at Hudson is assessing present and future threats to national security and securing our nation's most important military assets and advanced technologies," ( CQ Transcriptions, par 2). He explains much of how Hudson works towards defense technology and preventing that this…

MK-Ultra: The Conspiracy Theory that Came to Life One of the most well-known facilities to take part of the MK-Ultra mind control experiments was once known as the Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Here, doctor Isbell Harris was the head researcher for Addition Research Center at the, newly named, Public Health Service Hospital. Dr. Isbell was known for the extensive research he did with various drugs on imprisoned narcotics offenders that resided in the facility he worked at. Despite Dr.…

In many Americans eyes Edward Snowden can be seen as much as a traitor than a hero. Thirty year old Edward Snowden a former National Security Association contractor revealed the works of illegal government programs. The documents revealed detailed secret NSA programs and capabilities that have been and continued to be used to collect and store personal communications both within the United States and abroad. Snowden traveled from his homeland of Hawaii to Honk Kong to leak the documents to…

NSC 68 is a document, or strategy paper, written on April of 1950 to examine the blueprints accessible to the President of the United States in defense to the U.S.S.R. amid the progressing Cold War. This report concentrates on the military, monetary, political and mental viewpoints of the United States in relationship to the U.S.S.R. NSC 68 was exhibited to President Truman by his National Security Council. It was fundamentally composed by Paul H. Nitze, named by Dean Acheson the Deputy Director…

products. The information obtained by the NSA was allegedly used to prevent any terrorist actions. However, the NSA has “[built] up a store of information on millions of US citizens, regardless of whether or not they are ‘persons of interest’ to the agency” (Brown). Although terrorist plots are a legitimate threat to America, the U.S government has overstepped its boundaries by violating the citizen’s of America’s fourth amendment right to privacy. The United States of America was founded on…

thing to say about the intelligence community is that it doesn’t lack acreage. What I mean by that is that every government entity seems to have an intelligence arm associated with it to focus on their particular mission. It may seem a bit redundant to an outsider, but every aspect of research topics need specialists, i.e. Department of the Treasury needs intelligence to focus on finance specific topics. I won’t speak about so much about the history of the intelligence community, but its…