Regulatory agency

In the field of law enforcement, police officers must bring a sense of maturity to every assignment. Hersey and Blanchard, in their studies of the relationships between leaders and followers, “developed the concept of maturity into a new theory, referred to as readiness.” We will be explore this theory and see why they created it. In the book, Hersey and Blanchard describe two major components of readiness: “ability focuses on knowledge, experience, and skill/performance, while willingness is…

“There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency” (Snowden, qtd in Pope). Edward Snowden made this statement following his leak of thousands of classified documents to the press. The contents of these documents shed light on the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance system. However, this system was not only being used against the United States’s enemies – U.S. citizens themselves were…

Sage Gurney WWW.CIA.GOV The website, www.cia.gov, is all about the Central Intelligence Agency. On the website, it states that their “primary mission is to collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to the national security.” I would like to (1) explain what this website is about, (2) discuss the different types of information available on www.cia.gov, (3) share what I personally learned from…

Security Council in matters related to National Security and make recommendations to the NSC of intelligence activities. The CIA responds to national intelligence request by DHS in addition to other standing orders they receive. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), involves the producing and managing of foreign military intelligence. Their mission “is to provide timely, objective, all-source military intelligence to policy makers, to US armed forces around the world,”…

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was created by the United States Congress with the Passing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA) of 1978. The main purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is to provide jurisdictive guidance of intelligence activities in a secure, classified setting. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is make of Federal judges that are selected by the United States Supreme Court Chief Justice. (Foreign Intelligence…

Kenneth Weinstein came across a transcript as the speaker for a discussion held by Hudson on defense technology in a globalized market. Weinstein identified that "one of the most important work -- parts of the work we do here at Hudson is assessing present and future threats to national security and securing our nation's most important military assets and advanced technologies," ( CQ Transcriptions, par 2). He explains much of how Hudson works towards defense technology and preventing that this…

Police lights, sirens and news vans lined the street, just another day on the job I thought. Pulling into the scene I flash my badge at some of the local cops on the scene as I am escorted to the body. As I got closer I instantly recognised the body, it was Russel Owston head of the biggest bikie gang in Melbourne. Looking at the deep bullet holes from a pistol in his stomach I think to myself that this is most likely a gang shooting. I take some notes about the scene and its location and…

Iowa lakes Community College criminal Justice program gives students the opportunity to do a Service Learning Project within their community. The purpose of the service-learning project is to help us learn how to build relationships with people within the community. Also it taught us to be time oriented, and how to stand by an agreement. It is a great opportunity for us to get involved out in the community and make our selves known. It also teaches us that it is important thing for law…

While Edward Snowden was working for the NSA under a subcontractor, he noticed many questionable and disturbing methods used by the government to spy on and collect data from its citizens. He decided to collect as many incriminating documents as possible, leak them to the press while in China. During his stay in China, newspapers like the UK’s Guardian, and the Washington Times, released the documents leaked that showed the NSA’s real time information collection system from American citizens via…

Edward Snowden Thesis: Edward Snowden releasing government files was a good thing, for some. Edward Snowden was part of a series of leaks of government intelligence files that were linked to multiple different countries, countries that include Australia, England, and the U.S. Snowden first released the leaks in May 2013, Snowden had initially released them to the British Newspaper, The Guardian. One of the larger secrets that Snowden released was an order for Verizon which forced them to…