National Security Agency

by the Justice Department inspector general indicted the former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez of mishandling top secret information related to the U.S. counterterrorism program. The report noted that such violations can be detrimental to national security (Ryan 1). Accordingly, the report states that despite knowing the top secrecy nature of the program, Gonzalez failed to keep the documents related to the program in secure safes. He also kept them unsecured in his briefcase at his home.…

forever. People are more observant, more mindful, and more prepared. This is especially true for the law enforcement agencies all across the country. They have always had the duty to serve and protect, but that has been bumped up a few notches in the recent years and the day of the Boston Marathon Bombing is a perfect example. Today police are essentially at the center of Homeland Security. They try to prevent crime, respond when crime does occur, and make criminal cases against suspected…

digital footprints in order to protect themselves from prying eyes. With the advancement of the digital age, the concern for privacy is needed now more than ever to protect a basic human right. In recent times, it has become commonplace for government agencies to keep citizens under surveillance for the purpose of collecting and…

known to the general public unless there is criminal activity involved and even then, you are never fully sure of what is the complete story. In this case, bringing to light the email server issue might have been the right idea but only of done to an agency such as the FBI for investigation and the CIA or NSA because of possible data breeches from their departments. The media should never have been involved in the release of the email server issues, especially in light of the fact that the…

is the security fraud. Security fraud is an element which is associated with one committing crime aimed at infiltrating security issues and jeopardizing the efforts of security agencies of a state. As the main defendant in this case, Julian Assange has committed a white collar crime because of the fact that he leaked more than 250,000 cables exposing secrets crucial to U.S national security. On the other hand, through his actions, he purposefully obtained information crucial for national defense…

The Edward Snowden case—to this day—is an important revelation about the current ethical—privacy and security—issues in the US. As a journalist it is important to understand the situation and be able to cover the story adequately. One player in the media that was able to cover the Edward Snowden story was journalist Glenn Greenwald. Ultimately, he was faced with the ethical dilemma to either publish the Edward Snowden NSA leaks or to ignore him altogether. In order to truly understand the…

people. It feels as if the governments really believes that its greatest enemy is its own citizen. Although surveillance might hold some merit, in its present form the mass surveillance is certainly on the wrong track. In Harvard Law School National Security Journal, Austen D. Givens talks about the ratchet effect, He talks about how once an anti terrorism law is made, it is difficult to scale back and the law may get misused or misinterpreted with time, the laws that were designed for a…

First of all, talking about confidential information that includes wire tapping the United States National Security Agency has a big part with the law. Laura Poitras is one of the main focuses of the documentary. She is known to monitor programs after the incident of 9/11. In the movie, Laura Poitras receives an email from a “senior government employee in this…

initiated it all. Edward Snowden was a high school dropout that attended Anne Arundel Community College to study computers on two separate occasions. It was after his second time attending the college that he received his job as a security guard with the National Security Agency, which then turned into a job at the CIA with an information-technology job. He left the CIA two years later to work for both Dell and Booz Allen as a private contractor and subsequently in both places as a…

In June 2013, former National Security Agency(NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, despite knowing he would face legal prosecution, revealed to reporters confidential information on global surveillance programs run by the United States' government. He leaked how the United States' government covertly collects personal online information, such as email messages and phone conversations, as part of anti-terrorism measures. According to Newsweek, 55 percent of United States' citizens lauded Snowden for…