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    Unbeknownst to Sarah Carpenter, the FBI was keeping tabs on her by eavesdropping on her phone calls and following her movements. They didn’t know how much information about himself, Roger Nelson had shared with her. But, just to be safe, the FBI wanted to be sure she didn’t muddle things of for them by talking too much. If Sarah knew the NSA was watching her, she would be explosive in her outrage, although in the final analysis she could do nothing about it, even if the FBI’s actions were illegal

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    These are to ensure that it does not overstep its mandate and mission of conducting the intelligence operations that it has been tasked with of correcting Canadian detainees’ torture in Afghanistan. However, given that the CIA is not a law enforcement organization, it operates within certain realms legally. It cooperates within the set guidelines with other counterterrorism and counterintelligence agencies, such as the FBI, to ensure that the law is maintained. One of the core regulatory requirements

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    Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the military motivations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the creation of The Office of Strategic Services (OSS). President Roosevelt’s initial motives for gathering wartime intelligence took place in WWII, which defined a new era of interdepartmental intelligence gathering services that did not involve the separate branches of the U.S. military. In 1942, Roosevelt formed the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to provide a “central intelligence” cooperative

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    Domestic Data Mining

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    the NSA Michael D. Carter Domestic Data Mining by the NSA The National Security Agency (NSA) has in recent years been making headlines domestically and overseas. Primarily due to leaked internal documents by a rogue analyst that would like to style himself a hero for bringing the NSAs operations to light. Many Americans were aware of the agency’s existence and purpose, but were oblivious to the fact that the agency was not only collecting information on foreign countries, but were (and still are)

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    what actual intelligence is. They may disregard pertinent information and send up non-crucial information. Foreign Intelligence. The majority of the United States foreign intelligence comes from two areas, the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). As most know, the CIA conducts clandestine operations on foreign soil for the propose of intelligence gathering or other strategies that are of use to the United States. The DIA is the agency who “manages foreign military intelligence for policymakers

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    are asked than others. Do we need it? What is it for? Why is it important? There is a vast amount of answers and opinions involving these questions, but only few opinions are positive and view the CIA as a necessity. The CIA’s job is to gather intelligence about how various countries function, thus helping prevent war, while protecting the U.S. from possible breakouts of war. Different individuals argue about whether the CIA is still implementing their founding mission at all during their tasks,

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    9/11 Plot Analysis

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    practically impossible for a nation’s intelligence community to detect and prevent every attack on its soil. However, the American failure to uncover the 9/11 plot should be considered a massive failure considering the scope of the attack which involved careful planning, training many perpetrators, and a high profile target with many victims. Furthermore it can be demonstrated that there were many signals and opportunities to discover the plot that the intelligence machinery missed. “Hindsight is 20/20”

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    9/11 Commission Report

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    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

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    Reading five of the text, Privacy, and Law Enforcement, and National Security covers: 1) The Intelligence Community, 2) The Fourth Amendment Framework (Keith vs. U.S.), and 3) The Foreign Intelligence Gathering. We gain further understanding of intelligence agencies and their functions, the Fourth Amendments application to domestic and overseas cases, and the Foreign Intelligence Service Act. The Intelligence Community The author poses a question: “Should the law treat investigations involving national

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    headed by the President Yoweri Museveni ("The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency", 2017). The country has encountered several challenges such as the military coup and brutal military dictatorship. The country is highly praised for its fight against HIV/AIDS. However, it is also well known for its strict stance against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) ("The World Factbook — Central Intelligence

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