National security

Since 1947, the President of the United States along with members of Congress has received a special intelligence report called the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). The NIE is a document that is written for those who are the policymakers within Congress to give them an understanding or estimate of what is going on in a particular country, region or better understanding whatever is needed to be answer by the Intelligence Community (IC). This document allows for the policymakers and analyst…

I know that Manning's defense to this case is that, she wanted to "make a difference." However, what one needs to consider is that by publically leaking classified information is that the enemy too will also be able to access said information. While she was charged with 22 offences she was found guilty of all but two, making that 20 charges. Because proven guilty, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Since the incident she has seen a drastic reduction of her original sentence, allowing…

the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 which was added as Section 101 of the FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978 AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008. This act states that if not counteracted by another law “the United States Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence may authorize jointly, for a period of up to 1 year from the effective date of the authorization, the targeting of persons reasonably believed to be located outside of the United States to acquire foreign intelligence…

The National Security Administration (NSA) breach started by Edward Snowden started shockwaves of criticism in the government. However, it also revealed that many people will remain silent despite uncomfortableness of being monitored because goes against the majority. The majority, stems from the October, 2001, Patriot Act which the United States has since then taken liberties in the means of national security. The spiral of silence demonstrates that people are willing to sacrifice their privacy…

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…

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…

right that is inalienable, he also explained how he thought that undercover surveillance is destroying the 20th century. In an email he said “The NSA is not the Stasi.” referencing a security service in East Germany. In another email Snowden said “We should always remember that the danger to societies from security services is not that they will spontaneously decide to embrace mustache twirling and jackboots to bear us bodily into dark places, but that the slowly shifting foundation of policy…

greatest impact on policy within the national security establishment are the President of the United States, the Department of State (DoS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) combined. When discussing the topic of national security there must be an understanding that many different entities collaborate to form the many policies. The intelligence community is a key component in which many of the other entities rely on to form their approach to national security. Without the intelligence…

National security vs personal privacy has been a hot topic post-9/11. President Obama gave a speech on January 17, 2014 where he stated “in our rush to respond …., the risk of government overreach – the possibility that we lose some of our core liberties in pursuit of security – also became more pronounced.” (Office of the Press Secretary) Due to the tragic event on September 11th, 2001, our government was placed under extraordinary pressures to find the terrorists and bring them to justice…

for up to 30 years in prison by the federal prosecutors in Virginia. He is on the run from the American authorities, and the White house spokesman, Jay Carney said, “he is not a human rights activist. He is not a dissident” (Herzenhorn, 2013). The National Secret Administration also claims that their programs are constitutional and that their aim is to protect the public from terrorist attacks (Macaskill & Dance, 2013). Meaning that Edward Snowden should be seen as a criminal, a spy, that has…