United States intelligence agencies

Within the US, local and state law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are in the best position to make significant intelligence collection contributions. Cordner and Scarborough contend that local and state law enforcement are the “eyes and ears throughout the country” (Cordner & Scarborough, 2010, p. 112). As the emerging trend of locally entrenched, radical extremists continues, local and state police have developed a heightened situational awareness for terrorism…

Canadian Security Intelligence Service. CSIS was originally created out of the bill C-9 in 1984. Sir John A. McDonald set up the first CSIS like organisation in 1868. He created the Dominion Police which was in charge of protecting federal buildings. CSIS was created with the intentions to split the up the federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Before 1984, their was no proper intelligence agency in Canada. The RCMP were tasked with. The tasks were too heavy for one agency to…

With top of the art facial recognition software, the drones will be able to identify a face from several thousand feet in the air, providing tactical information to the local enforcement agencies. The information may facilitate on the apprehension of wanted terrorists. From his first days as commander in chief, the drone has been President Barack Obama’s weapon of choice, used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill the people his…

technical experts for each county, city or region however the states implemented them. I found out that I agreed with Kenny Diminyatz about his assessment of the southern border of the United States. It’s frustrating for me that the leadership has not secured this border. The 9/11 Commission report stated the “more than 500 million people cross the U.S. borders each year, and 330 million of them are foreigners coming into the United States” (White, pg. 371, 2012). I believe it’s time to pull…

creation of government agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and the KGB had been formed with the purpose of through secrecy operate in other countries with the goal of infiltrating, influencing, or interfere with events that occurred for the purpose of seeing ideal results that best suit foreign interests. Through secrecy nations had engaged…

greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man” (Mayer), Zero Dark Thirty is the dramatization of the search for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Centering on the work of Maya Lambert, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, the film has raised controversy due to its historical inaccuracy in depicting torture. The film justifies torture by portraying that enhanced interrogation techniques provided key information in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.…

Drones: Not Even Remotely Safe Technology. Ancient people would never imagined the type of technology people use today. It makes tasks easier and more efficient, however, at times some people misuse this technology. In his short story “A Sound of Thunder,” Ray Bradbury demonstrates this idea of utilizing technology through harmful means with the reckless usage of a time machine. Even though Bradbury writes of a technology that has not yet been invented, his idea still stands today. Drones…

the following groups: independent intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments. Within this maze there is a direct line of authority and a line of coordination connecting these elements into a manageable soup. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who reports to the President of the United States, leads the IC. Although this office is not listed as a member of the Intelligence Community, the DNI exerts…

The Central Intelligence Agency also known as the CIA was created by created by President Franklin D Roosevelt as an addition to the OSS or Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. William J. Donovan was elected by President Roosevelt to be the lead analyst of the new intelligence agency. Soon after World War two ended the OSS was abolished leaving the CIA as the main intelligence insight for the United States. After the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, Vice President Truman took office on…

to harm the US. We need to be at the top of this chain, and military spending cutbacks will only set us back further. There are many threats that face the united states each day and these threats are getting stronger by the minute. North korea, a very scary country with a very unpredictable leader, Kim Jong Un, is hostile the United states and we can’t him and his military cause harm onto our great nation. North korea launches nuclear weapons into the sea of Japan to assert the fact that they…