Central Intelligence Agency Pros And Cons

Hello, Dominique. I’ve enjoyed reading your post. Like you said prevent of inside threat is one of ways to conduct strategic counter intelligence. As we know, cyber security is crucial to protecting US computers, networks, programs and data unauthorized access. There are many cases that our government data has been stolen by the hackers from foreign entities including 4 million federal employee records. However, we can’t rule out the inside threats. There are so many spying cases from the insider whom worked either for foreign governments or businesses. These inside threats were not unnoticed for months and sometimes years and it caused great damage to US interests. Therefore, pursue of the real creation of a discipline in strategic counterintelligence

The CIA, otherwise known as the Central Intelligence Agency, is a federal agency that is independent and has the responsibilities of providing the country of the United States with national security intelligence. The CIA is in charge of gathering information that is going on from other countries in order to help our own national security to become stronger, and to be able to protect the citizens of the United States better. However, what happens when the CIA tries to protect it’s citizens by screwing over other countries? What happens when the CIA is responsible for destroying other countries’ governments or placing leaders where we do not belong as a country to try and control politics that we should not even be involving ourselves in. While the CIA is meant to have good intentions for providing our country with national security, a lot of times the United States is responsible for meddling in affairs we never belonged in which cause harm, devastation, or death to the countries we force ourselves upon.

In “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism,” Marianne Szegedy-Maszak informs the reader of the situation United States guards caused against Iraqi detainees. Under Bush’s presidency, United States soldiers brought physical abuse and humiliation upon the Abu Ghraib Prison. Szegedy-Maszak briefly analyzes the situation and compares the abuse to further scientific experiments in which test obedience. One of the experiments was the topic of another article titled, “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” written by Philip G. Zimbardo. In his work, Zimbardo discusses the experiment he held at Stanford University. A group of male students from the university were paid to participate in an experiment held in a mock prison. Half of the group

Ludy, B. (1986). Why don't they understand us? A history of psychology's public image. American Psychologists, 41, 941-946.

Question #1 – Describe two process differences between the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and the Military Intelligence Program (MIP). Which budget funds the General Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP)? Briefly describe the DNI’s budget “hammer” over the IC.

A great post covering the cons and pros of hiring contractors in intelligence community. After 9/11 attacks, the need to subject matter experts increased a lot to collect, process and analyze intelligence, that lead to hire a lot of contractors to do the job. Any they know how to do it, and how to train others on it because of the military background of most of the contractors. One point about the contractors they can be used in intelligence community and train others in their managerial skills and technical expertise. The infrastructure of intelligence community need a lot of contractors to keep all these equipment's running and protected, also to protect the facilities and personnel's. Redundancy is the other issue because of a

The NSA, or National Security Agency, is an American government intelligence agency responsible for collecting data on other countries and sometimes on American citizens in order to protect the country from outside risks. They can collect anything from the people’s phone data to their browser history and use it against them in the court of law. Since the catastrophes of September 11 attacks, the NSA’s surveillance capabilities have grown with the benefit of George W. Bush and the Executive Branch (Haugen 153). This decision has left a country divided for fifteen years, with people who agree that the NSA should be strengthened and others who think their powers should be limited or terminated. Although strengthening NSA surveillance may help the

She begins recounting the notorious details, how innocent college students labeled prisoners and guards displayed psychological abuse after only six days of confinement, and makes reference to Stanley Milgram’s obedience study and Abu Ghraib, where similar maltreatment, perceived or real, was conducted on civilians by civilians. She addresses and refutes the accepted belief that the Stanford Prison Experiment proved that anyone could become a tyrant when given or instructed by a source of authority. Instead, she suggests that Zimbardo’s inquiry points toward but does not land on one exact conclusion. She explains the influence of the setting, the presentation of the roles, Zimbardo’s participation, and perhaps a sense of expectation felt, all of which can be reflected in the shocking behavior of a few guards. She argues that it should not have been so shocking. Konnikova discredits the neutrality of Zimbardo’s experiment by insisting that people who would respond to an ad for a psychological study of prison life were not “normal” people. However, with her diction and choice of evidence she displaces the study's culpability in a way that ultimately blurs and undermines her claim.

In 1919, the Supreme Court had justified the cause of “clear and present danger”. This was exercised relating to Charles Schenck releasing thousands of flyers to American servicemen recently drafted to fight in World War I. The flyers described the draft as being "involuntary servitude". The flyer states that the government had no right to send American citizens to other countries to kill people.

ACLU. (2017). The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - News and Resources. Retrieved from ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/other/foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act-news-and-resources. This Act was enacted in 1978 but did not have many controversial aspects in it and was later blamed for not providing enough powers to aid the process of collecting intelligence. Some security experts blamed the restriction in the Act for the poor intelligence leading to the September 11, 2001, attacks.

When many Americans think about Germany, they think of the Nazis and the experiments they did with the Jews. However, what they are unfamiliar with is that the U.S. government did the same thing. “It all started in the 50’s during the Korean War.” Concerned about the rumors of Communist brainwashing of POWs, the CIA director Allen Dulled sanctioned the MKULTRA program in April 1953.Project MKULTRA is one of the most famous activities relating to the CIA’s efforts toward mass mind control. There were many different tests conducted as a part of the project, including some conducted on volunteers, inmates, and unsuspecting targets. (Wolfe 1)

Reading AOW # 10, explains a lot of reasons to keep your phone safe from hackers and the government. you can't trust anyone anymore. some want to do harm to others and others wants to help and do good to others, when they get too much power and can control it, then become evil. like the NSA ( National Security Agency). The NSA was a program that intercepts, decodes, and analyzes foreign communication- such as emails, telephone calls, radio, Morse code, and other “ signals intelligence”. The NSA is so big, that is stores billions of internet communication end cell phone record from the U.S. and around the world every day. NSA was created by President Truman in 1952 to code break the Soviet Union communication. no one knew about the NSA during the 10 years opening in the

In the Provision of Mental Health Services at the Detention Hospital in Guantanamo Bay article, it covers the treatment of detainees and the use of mental health officials in the military setting. The American Psychological Association questions whether it is ethical for psychologists to participate in nontraditional clinical activities. The detainees of Guantanamo Bay are sent to officials through a referral process and are provided with multiple psychological and psychiatric therapies. The purpose of this study, was to address the situation at Guantanamo Bay and show that detainees is treated with the best possible care. The treatment of detainees are an important thing, because these individuals are humans and have rights, despite what they are accused of participating in. In my opinion, I think that it is ethical for psychologists and psychiatrist to work in this nontraditional setting, as long their motives are to the detainee and not the towards the agenda of the military. One thing that was mentioned multiple times in the article was that the mental health officials did not partake in any of the interrogation settings and if a detainee was unfit to be interrogated then they were not interviewed, and I think this concept is for the best. The only problem that I do have with this program is not knowing how much oversight that the military has over the officials and their care, and if it is really possible to keep these two aspects separately. One way that detainees are

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was first enacted in 1978, and later amended, including in 1994, by the Patriot Act, and by 2008 it became the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments. In 1972, the Supreme Court chose the case of United States v. United States District Court, otherwise called the "Keith" case, in which the Court considered the legality of an Attorney General approved warrantless electronic surveillance of a United States citizen blamed for bombing a Central Intelligence Agency building. The Court rejected the government's appeal to acknowledge a foreign intelligence special case to the per se warrant prerequisite, holding that the Fourth Amendment prohibited warrantless surveillance directed at domestic threats to United States national security. The Court directly refused to choose the legality of warrantless surveillances where "foreign powers or their agents" were included, leaving open the issue of the Executive's power to direct such operational activities at those persons or elements. The Court likewise firmly asked the Congress to supply a judicially- manageable standard appropriate to surveillances conducted for national security purposes.

Those often included in these psychological studies are completely unaware of the ultimate damage that is being done to them. Though a handful of those who participate in these unethical tests are volunteers, practically everyone was unaware of how seriously damaging these tests could actually be to their mental health. The main reason for their almost “unreasonable” amount of trust given is the fact that “the tests [were believed] to be professionally and confidentially administered” (recruitloop.com,1), along with the fact that some even believed that they weren’t being tested on at all. This was extremely common throughout the tests of MK-Ultra, a series of experiments conducted by the CIA from 1953 to 1964. “Apparently MK-Ultra had a number