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been made to crack down on terrorism faster and safer. Many counter terrorist organizations have been made to solely protect the people of America. Although the main priority is safety, some of the actions taken may be unconstitutional. Does the national government have the right to regulate counter terrorism? Does the government have the right to ensure safety even if some actions go against the constitution? For the last four years the government has seemed to take any measures necessary to…

of command and control and is normally prescribed for specific missions or tasks that forces are specifically provided for. 2. Counterintelligence refers to information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage. HUMINT is intelligence gathered by means of interpersonal contact. They overlap in that HUMINT can aid in developing counterintelligence. 3. Personal recovery is a protection task associated with the range of military operations for the search and rescue of…

Cyber terrorists can expose information of individual people, uncover classified military information essential for national security, or even crash the stock market. Bringing down cyber terrorists takes a special group of intelligence analysts, government computer hackers and counter terrorism specialists to stop them from causing havoc on the U.S. What would happen if we had a security breach? The enemy would know almost…

The National Security Agency Pros and Cons What if there was someone who looked at every telephone call in America and could help find and kill terrorists just by tapping into computers, telephones, and other technologies? Before World War 2 we as Americans would probably think of this as just another rumor. Today this has come true. The NSA or formally known as the National Security Agency has become one of the most controversial topics in the USA and other countries like England. What is the…

illegal tactics to themselves as they continued to taunt Ellsberg and everyone one the enemy list. (until they got caught...) On June 17th, 1972, five members of Nixon 's Administration were arrested as they were found to have broke in the Democratic National Convention headquarters at The Watergate Hotel. They had broke in numerous times. The first to set up wiretapping materials in the Democratic office and eventually in later visits they had repaired some of the faulty materials. From the…

As DCI, any type of security intelligence information was available to Mr. Tenet. Once there was a threat of terrorism to our nation or country he was obligated to upon receipt to act accordingly, whether that be notifying other parties or sending personnel into unauthorized territory…

“Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as Director of CIA, David H. Petraeus”. Since the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was not able to keep his personal digital content private, can anyone expect their email to be protected from law enforcement without a warrant? Why should anyone have to face such embarrassment about their personal life when it’s not affecting their career? Whether…

presidency and the corruption of the CIA. The Soviet Union collapse marked the beginning of corruption in the CIA. The director of the CIA was George Tenet, who was very close to George W. Bush. Tenet was seen by the public as “an honest broker of intelligence”, meanwhile in private he would tell people what they wanted to hear, then go to others and tell them the opposite of it. One of the main reasons that Tenet stayed on as the director of the CIA during George W. Bush’s presidency was due to…

Being a newly formed nation, America did not share the same intelligence institutions as its counterpart, Britain, and therefore relied on the British for their, for a lack of a better term, brains and geographical advantages. The American department of state policy outline in the creation of the Atlantic Alliance that the United Kingdom should ‘retain control of her outlying possessions’ so that certain territories such as Malaysia would not ‘fall into less friendly hands.’ The phrase ‘less…

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…