National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NSA Data Leaks The National Security Agency, created in 1952, by President Harry Truman was intended to protect US citizens as well as the government. So why is an organization spying on those it was created to protect? The NSA could be causing more harm than good due to overstepping its intended purpose, misappropriation of data, and possible further intrusion on citizens. The NSA, in its early life, was an organization created with good intentions. Truman was thinking of the well being of the…

What would you do if someone you knew brother/sister or child was being held hostage and the person that captured them won’t tell you where they are unless you give them $5,000,000? Well for one, I doubt if many people have that much money just sitting around. And secondly don’t think the criminal will tell you he/she is keeping your loved one if you just say please. According to Michael Levin’s “The Case for Torture” torturing the individual might be the best option to get information out of…

What would you do if your country kept secrets from you. The C.I.A. torture report was a report that should have been released much early that it was. This report explained the horrendous actions the C.I.A. took to extract information from prisoners of war of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. There are many reasons why this report should have been released, but the most prominent reasons are the sanction of those responsible for this torture, and the right for the American people to know…

Regardless of the cuts (which may be reversed) made by the Obama Administration the reality is that the damage of the C.I.A. Detention and Interrogation Program is done. Hundreds have suffered under the program and the lasting psychological damage to many victims is severe and irreversible. Furthermore, the credibility of the C.I.A. to the American public and the U.S. government itself has been diminished because of their falsely reported information and excessive utilization of brutal…

within an organization.” Whistleblowers, in the context of the intelligence community, are employees or contractors of federal intelligence agencies who bring information on agency wrongdoing to the surface. The report “Intelligence Whistleblower Protections: In Brief” by Rodney M. Perry notes that the Obama Administration and Congress in Obama’s era did take action to “limit retaliation” against whistleblowers in the intelligence community for “certain types” of protected disclosures.…

the reputation of the KGB, the most feared, ruthless, and savage “security agency”, as it was technically called. In reality, its main roles are intelligence and counterintelligence. As good as the KGB is at intelligence, its primary role, its capacity for counterintelligence is renowned. Any half-decent intelligence agency knows that an aptitude for counterintelligence is as, if not more important than having intelligence capabilities. Conversely, if a government does not care that the enemy…

Americans feared their capabilities. In response to Soviet advancements, congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which allocated $800 million in government funding towards students attending college for science and math. The United States tailored the best and brightest students towards science, engineering, and math, preparing them for a future career at government defense and advancement agencies, including NASA. The article on Khan Academy continues, stating, “[Soviet…

Operations Executive, or the SOE, was a British intelligence agency that was formed shortly before the outbreak of World War II in 1940 (CITE). One of the main intentions of getting formed was to tackle the most powerful regimes in history, Hitler’s German empire (CITE). The SOE was formed in July 1940 from an order by Churchill, the prime minister at the time, and was formed from three smaller organizations: Section D – a branch of the Secret Intelligence Service handling in sabotage, EH – part…

he NS , or National Security gency, is an intelligence agency in the United States of merica, which is responsible for privacy of information and data for foreign intelligence and also counterintelligence. The NS is also charged with protection of communications inside the U.S. government, and the safety of any important documents kept by them. The agency is authorized to accomplish its task through clandestine means, which may consist of ‘bugging’ electronic systems, and, allegedly,…

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director Andrew McCabe altered Peter Strzok's 302 notes during his interview with then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and destroyed evidence, a new report suggests. Conservative commentator and journalist Mike Cernovich reports McCabe changed official FBI notes Strzok took when he interviewed Flynn last February, but that he destroyed evidence of his revision history. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Cernovich reported the FBI…