United States intelligence agencies

What would you do if someone you knew brother/sister or child was being held hostage and the person that captured them won’t tell you where they are unless you give them $5,000,000? Well for one, I doubt if many people have that much money just sitting around. And secondly don’t think the criminal will tell you he/she is keeping your loved one if you just say please. According to Michael Levin’s “The Case for Torture” torturing the individual might be the best option to get information out of…

of the biggest defenders of the program include the heads of the C.I.A. and the personnel working within the program. Former deputy director of the C.I.A., Michael Morell, argues that the program was a success. In an interview with Vice News he states…

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director Andrew McCabe altered Peter Strzok's 302 notes during his interview with then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and destroyed evidence, a new report suggests. Conservative commentator and journalist Mike Cernovich reports McCabe changed official FBI notes Strzok took when he interviewed Flynn last February, but that he destroyed evidence of his revision history. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Cernovich reported the FBI…

an evaluation of this film, an extraordinary impact will be presented on those who watched it and did not know much about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. For those who watch this film as their only information of the situation and do no further intelligence gathering on the matter, they are going to be very misinformed. The conflict portrayed in the film was the hunting of Osama as stated earlier in this paper and it was shown extremely poorly within the film. For example, a big discretion…

This thesis hypothesizes that the repeatedly negative portrayal of the Intelligence Community, its agents, and it’s employees by prime time television shows is eroding the public’s confidence and trust in the IC. This topic must begin with a basic discussion of how prime time programming portrays the Intelligence Community, its agenda and its employees. Following this discussion, existing literature within the scope of this paper’s thesis can be divided into two main categories: general…

Bradley to lead him safely back into the United States from his mission is to target a highly operative terrorist who he accidently shoots. The target is the only one who knows where the bomb is and the CIA eventually learn that his daughter Rayna Boyanov might be the only other person left on earth who knows where her father had placed the bomb. Susan leads Bradley to Rayna…

A fictional adaptation of the CIA 's hunt for Osama bin Laden, the blockbuster film Zero Dark Thirty directed by Kathryn Bigelow presents us with a number of important ethical questions. Along with a parallel theme surrounding torture, seen in the film, as well as felt through the audience. Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden becomes one of the most-wanted men on the planet. The worldwide manhunt for the terrorist leader occupies the resources and attention of two…

Francis Gary Powers was on a mission to secretly photograph Russian military locations. His U-2 spy plane could reach heights of 70,000 feet, which they thought it would be too high for Soviet surface-to-air missiles or fighter planes. However, the united States were unaware that the Russians had been improving their range of their missiles to fight the meddling of spy planes in their airspace. One of the missiles exploded close to Powers ' plane which broke it apart and send it travelling…

Claudia Weiss was walking home from a long day at her high school. A mouldy hand clamped a rag over her mouth and nose. She whimpered and kicked, to no avail. "Sorry, girlie," the voice said into her ear. She cried to scream but the chloroform was making black spots close in on her vision and her limbs heavy. Claudia closed her eyes and hoped to whoever was up there that she would be okay. Please, she begged. Finally, the black spots became blotches and patches and soon covering the entirety…

common sense of the people has infiltrated the masses enough now alerting us not to believe everything we read. Deceptive reporting was first brought to public attention when Operation Mockingbird, designed and implemented by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1950s was uncovered. It was exposed as the clandestine activity of those who wanted to dictate the opinions of the subscribers of news and general media. There are those who control the media, and want to sway public…