The Insider Scandal

Operation Mockingbird was a operation in the United States that started in the 1950’s where major media outlets (such as New York Times and The Washington Post) were altered and modified by agents paid by the CIA. The goal of this operation was believed to be the CIA trying to influence propaganda and their opinions into the news. The finding of this operation was because of congressional onvestigations in the 1970’s. The operation cost over $1 billion dollars (in today's currency) to run. The operation was created by Allen Dulles and Cord Meyer, but was later led by Frank Wisner once Dulles had become director of the CIA. “After 1953 the network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central

Watergate Scandal has been considered as one of the darkest chapters in American history. The event not only refers to unethical use of power by the public representatives but also levied great deal of attention on the mechanism of surveillance over the activities of public servants. Watergate scandal provides ethical directions not only to public servants but also provides ethical guidelines to the lawyers and media representatives as well. This incident reveals how ethical lines were crossed time and again by the politicians, legal attorneys and media for their own purposes. Ignoring the righteousness of the outcomes, events like these cause severe damage to the public's trust vested in these authorities which takes a long time to restore.

In the 1900’s and early 2000’s a series of events would bring a change in priorities for Federal Law Enforcement, namely the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), which was on the brink of being dissolved. “The Inspector General’s 2003 report stated that prior to 9/11, ‘the Bureau devoted significantly more special agent resources to traditional law enforcement activities such as white collar crime,

In addition to limiting freedom of speech through the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Smith Act, Congress continued on a witch-hunt to remove all dissenters in any way they could, often charging and prosecuting individuals based on circumstantial evidence. This period, often referred to as the Second Red Scare, followed World War II and came as the United States entered the Cold War, was a time of much paranoia. One of the many cases during this period that showed how little evidence was used against individuals to incriminate them was the case of Annie Lee Moss. According to a F.B.I informant, Ms. Moss was a “card carrying, dues paying” member of the Communist party and was brought to testify before McCarthy’s committee, for she was “alleged to have examined and correct secret, encoded oversee messages.” (The McCarthy Years)

Imagine this, what would it be like to end up in jail because of a rumor? That is what happened during McCarthyism and the Red Scare, people were arrested for rumors of being communist and put in jail when they really weren't. The authors of USHistory.org mentions how the government steps up in the investigations. In this article the authors are talking about how they stepped up their role in the investigation. It states, “The U.S Congress created a committee that sought to find “Un-American activities” in the hollywood film industry” (USHistory.org). The U.S Congress thought there were “Un-American” things happening in the hollywood industry so they created a committee to investigate more. The people who were accusing others of being communists were allowed to go free. With all of this happening it caused others to get fired from their jobs in local governments. Another article states, “McCarthey later gave Congress the name of the State Department employees the he claimed were traitors” (McCarthey). McCarthy used this to scare the people, he then took advantage of it, and turned in the traitors to Congress. Not long after the government acted on the list of traitors which led people to getting fired or jailed. These articles are very similar because of the many rumors causing deaths, and problems with other people.

Internal stakeholders, including employees and managers, were affected by the Sandusky scandal. Moreover, some stakeholders were criminally and/or civilly prosecuted as a result of the Sandusky scandal (Fahn, 2012). Seriously affecting Penn State University, multiple employees were identified as playing a role in this scandal (Ganim, 2013).

Watergate, the greatest scandal of the 20th century, remains a shrouded mystery. Early on the morning of June 17, 1972, there was a break-in and several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in the Watergate Office complex building located in Washington, D.C. Thus began a series of events that would shake the public’s confidence in its most visible symbol of American authority and prestige: the presidency of Richard Nixon. A seemingly random robbery at a Washington, D.C. building leads to the first presidential resignation in American history. We will discuss the following events surrounding the Watergate break-in: when did the break-in occur, how was Nixon connected to the break-in. We will also discuss the events surrounding the discovery of the tapes, the issues involved in trying to get the tapes from President Nixon and what is the "18 1/2 minutes of silence". Finally, throughout this paper we will also include Archibald Cox the first Watergate special prosecutor.

A 72-year-old Wooster is the latest to be arrested in connection with an increased emphasis by the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office to tackle the illegal drugs problem.

Modern interest in the Red Scare and the long standing efforts to balance liberty and safety in American history has brought some attention back to the topic of the Palmer Raids. The infamous nature of American anti-communist efforts may have died out but the language and ideology persists in many ways, particularly in the post 9/11 and Patriot Act era. Historians have long evaluated the Red Scare and the influence of the Palmer Raids on America’s understanding of ideological regulation. While some historians look at the influence of certain personalities like J. Edgar Hoover and A. Mitchell Palmer, others chose to write about the more abstract nature of civil rights and the controlling influence of the government. They also draw direct parallels

Created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), COINTELPRO, a secret program to undermine the popular increase which swept the country during the 1960s. Though the name stands for "Counterintelligence Program," the targets were not enemy spies but political groups. The FBI’s main objective was to eliminate "radical" political opposition inside the US such as the Ku Klux Klan(KKK) and The Black Panther Party(BPP). When they failed at repressing these groups using traditional modes such as exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes, the Bureau took the law into its own hands and secretly used fraud and force to sabotage legal political activity. Its methods ranged far beyond just surveillance, and amounted to a

The above quote, by Richard Nixon, best captures the mass hysteria and paranoia that dominated the American people during the Cold War Era. It would only be 15 years till an article by a New York Times reporter by the name of Seymour Hersh accusing the CIA of targeting antiwar protestors as well as many others whom they believed where foreign agents and had conducted everything from break-ins to wiretaps and even placement of informants within groups to monitor their actions. Later in the article Hesrh would state that the concept of the program was developed by a presidential aid and was in fact encouraged by members of the executive branch. He also revealed heavy involvement by the FBI on the behest of CIA director Helms who had been known to believe that the KGB had infiltrated the United States government.

According to FBI whistleblower M. Wesley Swearingen, the Bureau itself perpetrated at least 81 break-ins to the Socialist Workers Party headquarters without legal warrants between 1958 and 1965. In New York, the FBI instigated an armed conflict between the Mafia and the CPUSA -- killing two birds with one stone. To agitate clashes, the Bureau “forged three letters on CP stationary and sent them to the leaders of the mafia families. The letters blamed the mafia for a recent bombing of CP headquarters and promised retribution.” Clearly, the FBI perceived itself as above the law; by prodding the Mafia into fighting the Communists, the FBI circumvented the traditional legal process of convicting enemies of the state with evidence in a trial and also managed to initiate an inter-syndicate war. Normally, law enforcement agencies try to stifle violence, not proliferate it. Moreover, the FBI have also gone to very meticulous depths to incapacitate the New Left; in one incident the FBI prevented a Student Democratic Society protest to Richard Nixon’s inauguration by directing the bus company to refuse service to the students and also “The FBI callers, posing as representatives from the bus company, gave erroneous information to the organizers regarding routes, costs, departure, destination times, etc.” Even stranger, the FBI also penned forged letters to New Left groups designed to break up marriages between activists. In the most extreme case, however, the Bureau went so far as to hire prostitutes known to be infected with venereal diseases to sleep with and tarnish the reputations of New Left leaders, students, and professors. Truly, the FBI practiced very bizarre and certainly unauthorized forms of combatting the New Left. The degree to which the FBI persecuted progressive students can only be characterized as tenacious and vicious,

The 1960's changed the dynamics of law enforcement from previous years in the U.S. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson became the new focal point for the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. The world was changing as well as the good guys versus the bad guys and freedom of speech became an epidemic. With freedom of speech came riots and protests fueled by a new movement that sparked President Johnson to construct the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice in 1967 and the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in 1968 (Hoover, 2014). These implementations were designed to address the basic who, what, when, where, and how questions of crime and create a balance in equality. After changes were made of how law enforcement agencies reported their statistics, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). LEAA was created to federally

COINTELPRO was a secret program of the FBI that targeted groups, usually civil rights groups, that the FBI felt were in dangerous activities (Gilman). They did this in secret because Hoover felt that past court decisions “made it impossible to control them by nonsecret, legal means” and he firmly felt the groups needed to be stopped(Gilman). COINTELPRO was created in 1956 to target the Communist Party of the United States. When the United States entered the Vietnam War, many anti-war groups were established and caught the attention of the FBI. It was the FBI’s job to protect the US from these groups, and they did this by using COINTELPRO methods (Lerner).

In the years following World War I, Americans were gripped by fear that communism will spread throughout the United States. The majority of the time—when panic outweighs the rational debate, civil liberties pay the price. During the Palmer Raids, thousands of people were arrested without warrants and without regard to constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure. Those arrested were brutally treated and held