Defense Intelligence Agency

in 1976 their wish was granted in the form of the Church Committee, which was otherwise known as the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. After the start of their investigation the Committee members would find that the scope of the illegal activities the intelligence community had been involved in included more than just the CIA and FBI but also included that of the IRS and NSA. In addition, they would find that the actions taken domestically

With the fall of the Soviet Union War in the early-1990s, the Intelligence Community experienced a significant downsizing in the workforce. Through a series on budgets cutes, hiring freezes, and natural attrition the IC shrank in size and experience. Additionally, the body of analytic capital was quickly depleted as the community entered into an era without a major threat to drive intelligence collection, analysis, and reporting. Nearly two decades passed before the American public watched Twin

to allow the positive flow of intelligence. From local law enforcements agencies all the way through the central intelligence agency (CIA) all efforts are put forward to ensure that the proper intelligence is gathered and used for the overall protection of the United States. Each entity has their own limitations and specific capabilities when it comes to gathering and analyzing the code that comes their doors. Local law enforcement. While local law enforcement agencies focus on serving and protecting

Introduction Since 9/11, the intelligence community has improved greatly. It is not that they have been reconstructed from the ground up, or that their mission has completely changed, it is, in the community’s eye anyway, that they now all share information, no matter how important or how small. This information sharing now even includes all the way down to local and tribal authorities. The reasoning is that, even if it might be small or seem insignificant to you at your level, it may be the piece

are achieved through specific, but are not limited to, critical infrastructure protection, cybersecurity, border security, immigration security, protection of key leadership and events, maritime security, transportation security, defense of agriculture and food, defense against weapons of mass destruction threats, and health security (National Preparedness…, 2011). Due to the fact that the private sector owns approximately 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure (banking and financial

disasters also fall under homeland security (McElreath, Jensen, and Wigginton, 10). The Department of Homeland Security, therefore, has a broad range of responsibilities. At its formation in 2003, the department was composed of twenty-two federal agencies with over 180,000 employees. Homeland security’s formation was necessitated by the September 11th attacks in United States. Today, the Department of Homeland Security

nature. Throughout human history, man has always invented new ways to annihilate one another. With recent advances in terrorism, counterterrorism has developed a new type of counter. After September 11, 2001 under President Bush the Central Intelligence Agency would be the first into Afghanistan, thus compiling names to a secret list of high-value target and could be killed without presidential approval (Shaw and Akhter, 2014, P11). This would begin a new strategy of gathering names of terrorist leaders

The National Security Agency is a subunit of the U.S. Department of Defence and is the controller of the largest electronic and online surveillance programs. Given their authority from Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, the initial plans were for the NSA to be a regulated program, that had to go through a series of checks and balances in order to collect any information. It was also not intended for domestic use. On June 6, 2013, news outlets the Washington Post and the Guardian released

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), while on the surface appearing as dissimilar as the ideas of Karl Marx and the Founding Fathers, have at their heart a very similar idea behind them. Both of these federal bureaucracies are federal agencies, with the heads appointed by the President, and responsible to Congress. The CIA is a rather young federal agency, with its earliest predecessor dating back to only 1941 (Wallace 482). On July 11, 1941, the first

Post 9/11 Intelligence Reform Impact and the Way Ahead Daniel Ratner INTL 444 Professor Mead October 8, 2012 Introduction After 9/11, an event so shocking, and humiliating to both the American people, and the U.S. Government, vast reforms were identified to ensure that an attack of this magnitude never happened again. From the ashes of this despicable act came two major pieces of Intelligence reform. These documents were the 9/11 Commission Report and The Intelligence Reform Act