Acct 150 Week 1

While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is one, centralized agency, securing the homeland involves the cooperation and collaboration of many, different agencies and organizations ranging from local law enforcement to national agencies such as the NSA, CIA, and FBI. Each of these agencies contributes to the development of homeland security intelligence. By carefully analyzing and commenting on the objectives, tasks, strengths, weaknesses, and roles of each agency, a larger picture emerges regarding the capabilities and limitation of intelligence in supporting homeland security efforts.

Counter Intelligence can be defined as the efforts by an intelligence organization to counter a hostile or enemy organization from successfully acquiring information or anything against them. The intelligence organizations are responsible for the general security of nations and their main responsibility is to keep checking what the enemy nations are doing or have in plan. Equipped with the knowledge, they are then able to give needed advice to the government. Programs have hence been created for this responsibility, and are known as National Intelligence Programs. These programs are highly vulnerable to attacks from the enemies and the intelligence cycle security has to keep check to protect the process.

The analysis is then given to consumers and policy makers, once it is checked by the analyst supervisor and peers. The analyst should also be ready to give a briefing on short notice. But both the analyst and the policy maker or consumer have to be aware of at all times, is that the intelligence field does not know everything. “On any given subject, the intelligence community faces what is in effect a field of rocks, and it lacks the resources to turn over every one to see what threats to national security may lurk underneath” (Pillar).

Now one must ascertain that such regulations would only be applied under certain governance systems- a good government; a government that is liable to the people. In such cases, there should be funds available for social programs. I will classify social programs as two types, based on how they should prioritizes allocation of funds:

The holding period of the partnership interest includes the partner’s holding period for the 1232 assets contributed. The

You have done a very good progress this week. Your grades are good and improving. You have not missed any assignment or class. I am very proud of what you are doing. Keep doing such a good job. Your grades have been updated. Check them in the Excel document I attached to my email.

What is the purpose of the dividends received deduction? What corporations are entitled to claim this deduction? What dividends qualify for this deduction?

One Saturday afternoon, Hayden went to a car dealership, and bought the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro. Hayden only has $30,000 in his bank account, and the car costs $25,905. Since we are talking about Hayden, everyone just knew he was not going to choose the monthly payments. After spending three hours signing paperwork, he decided to spend the rest of his money at the grocery store. After, a long day spending every single dime he had in his bank account, he comes home to the Electric Company cutting off his power. Hayden forgot to pay his electric bill for this month; he did not want to pay it because JEA charge him $350 a month.

I recently encountered a conflict at work that involves a project manager for one of my clients, who I’ll call “L” and several people in my department including myself. “L” caused a 2 week delay in a project, and I wondered, why?

B The appraised value of the land is a good choice but it is based on the market. So to get more of a transaction them trading price of the stock is probably the best fit

International intelligence is one the biggest resources we use to fight terrorism in the U.S. Dr. Nora Bensahel,

The domestic preparedness cycle has four categories which are prevention, protection, response, and recovery. The first category of the preparedness cycle is prevention which applies to terrorism and transnational crime, whereas, terrorism and crime are intentional acts committed by people, it is well within reason to hope to prevent some of those acts from occurring (Cordner, 2016). In the USA PATRIOT Act, was written and designed to prevent and/or deter terror acts from occurring, additionally, in part one, this section gives investigators the tools and abilities to better combat terrorism (USA PATRIOT Act, 2001). As for protection, it is related to prevention but focuses on more specific facilities, locations, and system with the intent

and ensure resilience to disasters. In order to achieve these goals, intelligence is necessary. The Office of Intelligence and Analysis, a subsection to the DHS focuses on obtaining and analyzing intelligence and puts them into the Homeland Security Enterprise which primarily

Two universities that help conduct research to protect the homeland are the University of Southern California and Texas A&M University. These are just two of many different universities that help with the protection of our country. They use the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) program funded through the Defense of Homeland Security. CREATE was established around during 2004 after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Their mission is to improve the Nation’s security utilizing eight research areas to develop different programs that “creates models, tools, evaluation methods, software, targeted analysis and communication protocols”

Vital to this are on-going threat assessments. Effective threat assessment is the need for abundant, timely and useable intelligence, about potential terrorist sponsors, perpetrators, activities and targets, as well as intelligence to guide our prevention and preparation activities and programs.  Despite the transnational nature of many terrorist groups, challenges to integrating foreign intelligence with domestic law enforcement information remains.