Defense Intelligence Agency

Force career and current leadership characteristics have been molded by incidents in my life and career. These incidents include my grandfather’s influence, significant events in my Air Force career, and my contributions to Air Force and national intelligence objectives in my current job. These three things are the leading factors that have made me the leader I am today. Each of these things contributed to different traits like; dedication to hard work, honesty, goal setting, initiative, persistence

Combat Support Agencies’ Civilian Force of the Future General Clapper, the United States Director of National Intelligence, recently briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on the worldwide threat assessment. His brief addressed the implications of technology on national security, and characteristics of the nation’s leading threat actors that include China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state actors. The entirety of the briefing demonstrates that the United States will face numerous

counter terror agencies working restlessly to overcome terrorism and the counter terror measures taken especially by the United states

negative attributes and criticisms of human intelligence, HUMINT is a valuable and essential member of the intelligence community as it accomplishes tasks that signals or imagery intelligence cannot. As Margolis writes, “the lack of HUMINT in intelligence operations leaves analysts staring at pictures, frantically searching through communications, reading newspapers, and measuring emissions to ascertain what is going on.” HUMIT is vital to the intelligence community as it allows access to what is being

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

‘Intelligence without analysis is only information’. Critically assess this claim. Introduction Part 1 – Understanding Semantics Part 2 - Part of the system Part 4 - Analysis as part of the Organisation, a member the community Conclusion Introduction Analysis is important. The statement assessed impresses that fact upon the reader. Without it, the speaker implies, Intelligence is inefficient. It is merely ‘information’. For the intelligence community, it seems that information

accident. During his short stint attending community college in Maryland, Snowden studied computers. He began working for the National Security Administration (NSA) as a security guard and then secured a high paying IT position with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a federal contractor. Eventually he landed a job on a classified program back at the NSA (Edward Snowden Biography, n.d.). Ultimately, to gain access to exceptionally furtive programs and highly classified information, Snowden was granted

“The NSA (National Security Agency) is the largest and most secretive U.S. intelligence agency.” (Junior Scholastic). NSA spying in U.S. was first discovered in the spring of 2013. The first program that was leaked was a program called PRISM. This program was made to check up on everyone and was made after 2001. The NSA is now known as the government program that monitors technology. I agree with this political cartoon #7 (NSA Spying Philippines P.O.V.) as it shows the abuse of power because of how

Through his guidance, mentorship, and active leadership MSG (Ret.) Keith McKinney molded me into the Solider and military intelligence professional that I am today. His strong character lent credibility to the fatherly role he filled for so many in his charge. Those in his charge were not only subordinates, but also his peers and superiors would find his presence reassuring as it invited them to seek his counsel. Keen intellect and natural leadership abilities grounded MSG McKinney’s wise counsel

Intelligence Data Collection Programs To effectively analyze programs, intentions and ideological motives of Hezbollah several collection programs of the five types could be utilized to gather intelligence on Hezbollah. Collected information must undergo further conversion before it reaches the analysis phase to be used against Hezbollah (Gay, 2005) First, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) could be used to gather intelligence information from open sources such as websites, social media sources,