National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The Beginning of the End of Terrorism: Is It Justified? In the most recent years, a rise in terrorism globally has invoked a string of United States military actions in response. Though these actions have been debated by pacifists to warmongers based on personal beliefs, Aquinas’s just war theory from Summa Theologica is the most impartial and distinguished method to justify or condemn the U.S. military’s involvement. There are numerous actions taken by the United States military that were, and…

usual purchases. This includes luggage bags, batteries, syringes, and commonly found in homemade bombs hydrogen peroxide hinting that they were getting ready to hit soon. At this point MI5 the main organization responsible for domestic counter-intelligence was working with Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police and MI6 operates in a system information sharing. They discovered through…

States Intelligence Community (IC) is like a symphony orchestra: each entity offers its own sound to the greater score, and led by the conductor at the front, the President. Intelligence, like music, is an art and a science. Each organization has its own specialty: the Central Intelligence Agency specializes in Human Intelligence, the NSA specializes in Signals Intelligence, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office specialize in Imagery Intelligence, the…

Introduction Since ancient times, intelligence tactics and espionage have evolved and become more complex with the changing of the global landscape and culture. American intelligence, in particular, has seen many changes during its lifetime and continues to adjust to the vicissitudes of the nation—although, these changes have not always been the most effective. History implies that effective transformation rarely occurs during uneventful times. Instead, significant adjustments often result…

information was provided. Intelligence is the most powerful asset on the Earth. Information can enable many things from building a bomb, locating a person, to hotwiring a car. This is the reason that Homeland Security has dived so deep in the intelligence…

Within the US, local and state law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are in the best position to make significant intelligence collection contributions. Cordner and Scarborough contend that local and state law enforcement are the “eyes and ears throughout the country” (Cordner & Scarborough, 2010, p. 112). As the emerging trend of locally entrenched, radical extremists continues, local and state police have developed a heightened situational awareness for terrorism…

The Central Intelligence Agency also known as the CIA was created by created by President Franklin D Roosevelt as an addition to the OSS or Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. William J. Donovan was elected by President Roosevelt to be the lead analyst of the new intelligence agency. Soon after World War two ended the OSS was abolished leaving the CIA as the main intelligence insight for the United States. After the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, Vice President Truman took office on…

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…

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 tasks were too heavy for one agency to…

blowing is a very controversial and delicate topic in the world today. It defines whether a person is a hero or a traitor. The Snowden NSA leakage is the perfect example of controversy. Edward Snowden, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee as well as a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, blew the whistle in 2013. He was the face behind the world’s the biggest whistleblowing case in U.S. history. He exposed how the U.S. government’s PRISM program works and how it evaded…