Intelligence agency

Following the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, many issues were identified within the Intelligence Community (IC), namely that information had not been shared between agencies or with local law enforcement apparatuses in order to piece together the looming threat. In order to fill this significant gap in security and to strengthen U.S. counterterrorism efforts, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) created numerous organizations to compensate for…

PRISM is a massive surveillance program established by the United States National Security Agency in 2007 with the goal of obtaining and analyzing information on criminal activity. In 2013, the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the extent of the National Security Agency’s operations were much larger than previously realized (BBC News). It is now known that the National Security Agency has obtained information from the servers of major internet companies (e.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft…

members of Congress has received a special intelligence report called the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). The NIE is a document that is written for those who are the policymakers within Congress to give them an understanding or estimate of what is going on in a particular country, region or better understanding whatever is needed to be answer by the Intelligence Community (IC). This document allows for the policymakers and analyst within the Intelligence Community to collaborate to…

Republican party to mislead or divert the public’s attention from the truth. Similarly, in his memoirs Years of Trial and Hope written eight years later, Truman recounted that “The country had reason to be proud and have confidence in our security agencies. They had kept us almost totally free of sabotage and espionage during the…

presented conflicting duties. The CIA had to choose between stripping the detainees of all control leaving them hopeless and desperate or to let the detainees keep giving them the run around and not preventing the possible deaths of innocent people. The Agency had to choose the course of action that would bring about the most positive outcomes and help them with their duty of serving the American people. I also agree that their decisions were better than what the Obama administration chose to…

think the CIA would be a very fun and interesting job to have. It also can be very dangerous at times. I would love to be part of the CIA and there are many reasons why. CIA stands for Central Intelligence Agency, and was formally created 1947 (“About CIA”). The CIA works to analyze foreign intelligence related to threats, also foreign governments and industries. They preform very secretive undercover operations. Being a CIA agent can be very scary at times because sometimes you have to work in…

The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy concerns with the surveillance of people within the United States. It all started while the collection of allegedly foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) was going on as part of the war on terror. The National Security Agency is one of America's largest intelligence organizations. It is similar to the FBI and CIA. It specializes in codebreaking and code making, and provides secret and private information to US political and…

be taken out of power. In Guatemala, the CIA masterfully lied to entire nation and convinced them they were about to come under attack. They proved intelligence could disarm an entire military and eventually lead to a President’s resignation, in order to stop the spread of communism. Guatemala was truly an amazing feat for the CIA as it showed how agency could reverse the roles of the Asymmetrical warfare, by carefully manipulating peoples ' fears. In Afghanistan, the CIA secretly armed the…

also stated there was no real distinction between people from the United States (US) and those in Brazil, other than their primary language is Portuguese, while I believed they had darker skin tones like Hispanic people in Mexico. (Central Intelligence Agency, n.d.) Since the country is a melting pot of people of various nationalities, , I thought it strange they distinguished their classes by the hue of their skin – the paler the color the higher in status a person would be. (Commisceo-Global,…

issue that has many Americans in a state of panic and confusion. The topical matter being addressed involves privacy issues with the NSA. The NSA, or National Security Agency, is responsible for monitoring on a global scale. They collect, analyze, decode, and translate potentially "dangerous" information from foreign intelligence. The NSA has the ability to track phone numbers, set up fake Internet cafes, spy on foreign leaders cellular phones, tap into video conferences, monitor texts, access…