been at least 12 cases of intentional misuse by members of the NSA since 2003. Before trial the accused either resigned or retired to escape disciplinary action. This means that they did spy on people because if they did not they would go to the trial and be found innocent. However they could have all been paid to retire by the government to hide a more sinister threat such as terrorist demands or even aliens! Not only have the NSA been caught spying on American citizens but they have been caught…

Introduction On June 6, 2013, The Guardian published a story about the National Security Agency's (NSA) secret Internet surveillance program, PRISM (Greenwald and MacAskill 2013). The story was based on documents leaked by one of the most successful whistle-blowers in American history, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The documents that Snowden has released up to this time have shown the NSA to be heavily engaged in the collection of personal Internet activity, bulk collection of telephone…

military and civilian installations. According to James Clapper (the Director of National Intelligence) these threats have become so severe. It is surpassing terrorism as the greatest challenge facing the nation. In response, the National Security Agency (NSA) began conducting surveillance on those who are involved in these activities and others which are threat to US national security interests. This program became so broad; it started continually collecting phone records and emails on ordinary Americans…

NSA should be stopped The NSA, The National Security Agency that is under the government control was initially intended to protect the USA by tethering through technology devices to attempt to pick up any suspicious activities. The problem is that many feel as if the NSA has no right to evade their privacy. The NSA should be penalize every time they do so, or should have some type of warrant, but only for last resort, or stopped completely. There are many other ways to go about finding troublesome…

Outline: Intro Hook: Thesis:Although comforting shell shocked citizens, current programs are becoming unnecessarily invasive, costly, and controversially uneffective. Body 1 Costly Break down numbers where tips usually come from Body 2 Invasive The NSA has so broad terms that pick up potential threats that writers are scared to research certain topics. Terms are ridiculous Results don’t add up Body 3 Uneffective Reiterate numbers Talk about lies by the director Body 4 Con: Numbers suggest effectiveness…

Legality and Ethicality in Financial Reporting In week3, we are looking into the case of Excello Telecommunications, and study their behavior base on the knowledge of legality and ethicality in financial reporting. Excello Telecommunications has been successful in the past. However, in recent years, the company is facing more and more competitors. For the first in the company’s history, the earnings estimate won’t be met. This means nervous investors and drop in value of Excello stocks. And the…

In early June of 2013, all the main broad casting channels broke the story that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “spying” on United States citizens, and that communication in the U.S. was not private. Edward Snowden, formerly worked as a technical contractor for the NSA at the time, gave the media the information for the story. At the time of the release of the story, Snowden was in Hong Kong. This trip was a deliberately planned in order to keep himself from being immediately incarcerated…

or disobey the norms and regulations of our social environment is determined by the way we appeal to their distinct morals and ethics. There are many “ethical situations” in our society on which various people have various different opinions. The legality of marijuana is one such situation in the society regarding the morals and ethics. It is argued worldwide by all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds who all think differently towards this subject. In today’s society, everybody from the…

long-standing debates about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless wiretapping. Although that beginning of the program conducted by the NSA is unknown, it is easily assumed that the NSA has been practicing such surveillance activities for a long time, or as long as national security has been threatened. Nevertheless, the program started well before the tragic events that unfolded on September 11, 2001, with the Bush administration directing the NSA to begin secretly surveilling conversations between…

illegitimate. Snowden worked for the NSA through subcontractor Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior analyst, and during his time with the organization, he collected top-secret documents regarding NSA’s surveillance practices with the intention of disclosing them to the public. He then went to Hong Kong and disclosed those documents to the Guardian journalists. Soon after, newspapers began printing those documents detailing the widespread surveillance activities of the NSA through programs such as PRISM. It…