Pinkerton National Detective Agency

How would you feel if you are being watched? Even if you didn’t do anything wrong. Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor. In June 2013, while station at the NSA base in Hawaii, he stole confidential U.S. documents. One of these included mass surveillance of citizens along with the globe. He took these files to Hong Kong, China to meet with publishers of Washington Post and the Guardian whom he contacted with. A few days later, a news story was published about the mass…

Edward Snowden is currently residing in Russia after leaving Hong Kong on June 23, 2013. He has been granted asylum until 2020. Snowden’s reason for coming to Hong Kong resulted in the biggest and most publicized information leak in U.S. history. When Glenn Greenwald, a commentator for The Guardian , landed in Hong Kong, he had already gotten documents from Snowden dealing with the NSA Prism program, which secretly collected internet communications from major U.S. internet companies.…

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…

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…

Intelligence (SIGINT) could have one based on Cellular Telephone intercepts or other communications. Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) could have one based on persistent observations from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or a static observation from National Technical Means (NTM) or commercial satellites. Regardless of the origination of the assumption, we should be able to use it to aid us in the implementation and application of advanced analytics and collection methodologies. In today’s…

causes more connections to be made, obviously to the genre of the murder mystery, but also to a specific post-modernist theory concerning the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. On the back there is a "blurb" by the author: "A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic." The reader makes, under the direction of the author, a host of intertextual connections even before opening the…

and improve accuracy. The organizations that help lead the criminal justice system to what it is today are, Vidocq Society, Pinkerton National Detective Agency,…

motto of Allan Pinkerton’s detective agency. Pinkerton led these spies in the South where they “Didn’t sleep”, discovering more and more tactical information on the South’s plans to win the Civil War. In the USA a great war would soon begin a war that would separate the young nation, and would create the North and the South (Confederacy). The war would begin on April 12, 1861, and the main reason for this war was slavery. Spies such as Allan Pinkerton and the “Detective Agency” in the North,…

mercenaries (Grabianowski). Interestingly, The Pinkerton Detective Agency discovered there were profits to be made as mercenaries. Their job would be to escort scab workers to the company, intimidate strikers, and prevent strikers from damaging property. And, sometimes things turned deadly. On one standoff in 1892, in Homestead, PA, it became a battle scene with fires, a cannon, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and ending with three Pinkerton employees and ten strikers dead…

Detectives are very important to the society because without them, a lot of crime would go unsolved. Detectives interview suspects, look for evidence at a crime scene, and fill paperwork to summarize the solved crime. The world would be way more crime-filled if there were no detectives. They solve cases that seem impossible and they put criminals in jail. Although policing dates back to Medieval times, and they more than likely did investigations. The specific unit of detective is relatively new…