National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The issue I will discuss is spies by Lewis H. Lapham. My whole life I’ve wondered if there are people who live in the shadows that gather information on our country’s enemies and even spy on the average citizen. I think every person should be concerned with being spied on it’s an invasion of privacy and breaks the rights we have as humans. It bothers me that there is a group of people that knows everything yet we only get told what they want us to know. The two main articles I will discuss are…

direct military campaigns between its primary adversaries, the United States and the Soviet Union. America fears that the Soviets push to globalize communism is a direct attack on America and democracy; therefore, the U.S. utilizes their Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to coordinate covert operations in an effort contain the threat of world domination. Consequently, the conflict becomes known as the Cold War, and CIA Director, Harry Rositzke later describes the ordeal as, “a holy war against…

becoming a reality when regarding the right to privacy. For many years, the government has been steadily stripping the right to privacy from Americans piece by piece. This violation is only creating greater problems. The United States government and its agencies have been illegally collecting the private and personal information of Americans for years now. When it violates the right to privacy the government is also violating American freedoms. There are many Americans willing to surrender their…

and assorted lunatics from abusing the 2nd Amendment privilege, as it protects that privilege for law-abiding sportsmen and other citizens” (Pettit). The president is the head of the nation’s intelligence hierarchy, including the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Counsel, National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These provide the United States with the top protection against invasion and domestic violence. The Government has the right to send troops merely…

understand what can be considered an intelligence failure, it is important to understand the meaning of the word intelligence. In the world of the intelligence community the term intelligence simply refers to information policy makers need to make informed decisions on how to keep the nation safe. According to the Central Intelligence Agency there are four types of intelligence: Current intelligence, which is used when looking at day to day activities; estimate intelligence, which is used to…

The two story lines between the movie “13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” and the novel “Lord of the Flies” both share similar plot characteristics such as survival and bravery. The main characters are put into unpredictable situations throughout the story and are forced to overcome the conflicts given the circumstance and fix the situation by working with each other and figuring out ways of surviving. In the events of the movie “13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”, 6 ex-military…

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…

Film Analysis of Citizenfour (2014) Citizenfour, a documentary directed by an independent filmmaker named Laura Poitras, scrutinizes secret government surveillance programs after a former employee of the NSA named Edward Snowden decided to reveal certain surveillance programs that violate the privacy of American citizens. To affirm that the United States government consistently violates the privacy of American citizens by intercepting their personal communications and unlawfully spying on them…

Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg are two men that developed a need to exploit The United States government of secret and confidential information. Though Ellsberg and Snowden both leaked highly classified information to the public the actions and outcome of doing so was different between the two. Ones actions considered him to be a patriot and on the other hand a traitor. Daniel Ellsberg is known for leaking the pentagon papers in 1971; which “revealed that the government had ramped up the…

Edward Snowden, a man currently seeking asylum in Russia is responsible for releasing classified documents in 2013. While employed by the National Security Agency (NSA) he released documents proving the government was involved in a massive surveillance program that involved citizen’s private communications. While I do not agree with the government doing such things I do not agree with how and why Mr. Snowden released the information. Mr. Snowden was acting as a contractor for the NSA,…