Major Regulatory And Legal Requirements

     The CIA is one of the U.S. foreign inteligency agencies, responsible for getting and analyzing information about foreign government, corporations, individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. government. The State Department's Bureau or inteligence and reserch and theDefense Department'sdefense inteligence agency comprise the other two. Its headquarters is inLangley, Virginia, across the Potomac River from D.C. The Agency, created in 1947 by President Harry S. Trueman, is a descendant of the Office of stratigic Services(OSS) of World War 2. The OSS was dissolved in October 1945 but

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 1974 when President Truman signed the National Security Act, which recognized the intelligence community and required congress be “fully informed”. In 1956 President D. Eisenhower establishes the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to counsel the White House on the quality and adequacy of intelligence. 1976 President Ford establishes the Intelligence Oversight Board to advise the President of the legality of intelligence activities. 1977 The House of Representatives establishes the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was not intel 1991 that congress passed the Intelligence Authorization Act, requiring the President to inform congress in writing of all covert actions undertaken by the CIA. Then the attacks of 9/11 happened and in July 2004 the 9/11 Commission released a public report of approximately 40 suggested reforms, several of which were to improve Congressional oversight of intelligence activities. The committee also stated that congress was most responsible and their dysfunctional oversight of intelligence was always dependent on newspaper headlines. This leads to January 2007 when the House responds to the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations by establishing the House Appropriations Select Intelligence Oversight

Based on information from osu.edu, CIA have no law enforcement functions within the U.S., however, the FBI has rights for them to enforce laws within the U.S. Within the U.S., the CIA is prohibited from collecting information on “U.S. Personal”, which include U.S. citizens, resident aliens, legal immigrants, U.S. corporations, no matter where they are located.The CIA enforces foreign policies in other countries, such as CIA passing on useful information to the U.S. military leaders during combat. The FBI is aloud to handle things within the U.S.. Things like kidnapping, tax evasions, and bank robberies. The FBI and CIA has boundaries for a reason and they would be punished if they break them.

Congress has for a long time has tried in various ways to oversee the intelligence community which have shown to be sometime controversial, and a very difficult responsibility. What make this task so hard is the secrecy and sensitivity intelligence information finding, the sources, and the methods in which the information is obtain. Congressional oversight has evolved since the mid-1970s and a lot more since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The critics about Congressional oversight by some as being inadequate, ineffective, or worse, while at the same time proposal that was made in the 9/11 commission report was met with challenges from within the Legislature Branch and from the Executive Branch

Since 1947, when the Central Intelligence Agency was created, the United States has had an organization that has the sole purpose of conducting covert operations, collecting information, and providing that same information to the respective personnel. Although, this, by some, has been considered conflictual as the CIA is handling those three actions. It is considered that this may be a conflict of interest in a means of, the same people that are collecting information, creating a bias opinion, are conducting the covert action being carried out. This could create a bias work environment. Due to the professionalism and 60 years of success to show for it, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Clandestine Service (NCS) conducting

The CIA’s scandal is closely related to President Nixon’s Watergate scandal. “On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested during a bungled break-in at the Democratic campaign headquarters at the Watergate hotel-apartment complex in Washington, D.C.” In June President Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Haldeman, were recorded on tape agreeing to order the CIA to disrupt the FBI’s investigation into the break-in at the Democratic National Committee. The following month the presidential tapes were made aware by the testimony of Alexander Butterfield. After these tapes were released the Watergate scandal was brought to a whole new level because now the white house was officially involved.(Zivich)This made people start to really question the government itself.

The CIA is recognized as an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization that works with confidential fiscal and administrative procedures, although have fallen through loop holes and broken some rules and regualtions. The case of CIA v. Wesley Swearingen will aid in conducting towards proving that the CIA is corrupt. Wesley Swearingen, an ex-FBI agent from 1951 until he retired in 1977 perpetrated and witnessed numerous violations of law by FBI and CIA agents and their operatives, heard revealing statements by other agents about their illegal activities, and read files that had documented violations of the rights of American citizens. Swearingen states that “activities of FBI agents and their ‘informers’ included warrantless

Congress plays a vital role in strategic intelligence through the use of operational oversight and budget control, but this has become an issue of concern in recent years. Congressional intelligence committees uphold high decisions pertaining to every type of intelligence collection that exist, and was founded on the concept of no one person having absolute power. This is the concept that undergirds the importance of the oversight of national intelligence. Since the U.S. involvement in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Congress has not had a very robust congressional oversight on intelligence and left the decisions to that of the president and the intelligence agency governing important operational matters.

The CIA has been a part of a government for decades and has been viewed as one of the most controversial agencies by people due to the numerous news headlines about conspiracies, but the department plays a very important role in our government when it comes to assisting other departments in the protection of our country. The CIA’s primary mission is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the President and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to national security. A lot people about don't know this much about the CIA, its characterized by many as this mysterious group of unknown people that work in the shadows, but thats not the case at all. The CIA has a significance in our

Military operations traditionally fall under Title 10 authorities. Intelligence activities fall under Title 50 authorities. The issue often arises with the CIA conducting paramilitary operations, and SOF conducting UW preparatory activities. Both types of activities appear that they are encroaching on the other department’s authorities, which

But then you must ask yourself, who controls the CIA? Are CIA employees aware what they are exerting is considered inhumane? In the year 1933, the first genocides began taking place under the command of Adolf Hitler. Now, almost a century later, there are still articles being released about how Nazi soldiers were being brainwashed into thinking killing people was right. That they were cleansing the world of evil. It was not realized, of course, until after the Holocaust ended. When they watched videos of all who died at their hands, and were in awe that they could perform such sinful acts. Maybe CIA agents are experiencing the same thing. Perhaps they think what they are executing is for the good of our country. The CIA’s affairs could substantially alter the world’s recognition of America. After the Holocaust ended, Germany was extremely embarrassed of what happened. In fact, they still are to this

Founded during World War II President Roosevelt appointed William Donovan the first coordinator of the CIA. After the War ended, President Truman recognized the need for a Central Intelligence Agency this led him to Sign the National Security Act of 1947. The most recent change came after 9/11 when President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which creamed a director over the Central Intelligence and National Intelligence. Both directors are accountable for Counterterrorism and the Intelligence Community. The director of the CIA is responsible for the budget, operations and personnel, of the CIA, is chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The CIA works as advisors regarding foreign intelligence to the president and policy maker

Every day, the United States has to deal with many issues, issues of morality, issues of war, and, most prominently, issues of terrorism. In order to assist in the countering of terrorist action, the United States relies on a large number of people and programs, the largest contributor being the CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. The CIA has an obligation to provide information regarding the issues of terrorism to the President of the United States, in addition to those who assist him in the making of decisions, both by aiding in the making of decisions for the Presidents and through providing sufficient information for decision makers to make rational, well-informed decisions. However, in doing this, the question of

Ethically we would think that the police or any similar organizations to the police are meant to help us, correct? But now we have the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and there is one question, where does the CIA fit in with the people of the United States? They aren’t there to enforce any laws on the streets or teach us the dos and don’ts, so where exactly do they come in? Defined by CIAAgentEDU.org, “The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent federal agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to our nation’s policymakers. The foreign intelligence the CIA gathers is used to provide tactical and strategic advantages so as to preempt threats and further U.S. national security objectives. The covert activities and the objective analyses that result are used to keep the nation “safe.” Now to exactly what extent they take our safety into their own hands, and why do they restrict us from learning about events that are going on in our country, let alone other countries, that can and most likely will heavily impact our day to day lives. This lead us to a very interesting question, why has the CIA been censoring so much information form us about thing that are occurring and affecting our lives? Although the CIA may think that they are protecting us by hiding all this information and secrets, in reality they are impacting our lives in such a negative way that no one would even realize.