Intelligence agency

beginning of a new era in the U.S. intelligence community (IC). The terrorist act highlighted weaknesses in the IC including inefficient information-sharing mechanisms and gaps in domestic terrorism (Burch, 2008). As a result, the pattern of security in the U.S. shifted from focusing on hostile nations to adversary groups resulting in a change of approach to counterterrorism efforts (Lowenthal, 2003). 9/11 had, in short, prompted the largest reorganization of the intelligence community since 1947 (Burch

An insight look at the Intelligence Community Intelligence is a dependable instrument of its own to generate information that establishes the base of National Security in the United States. Intelligence has been used since the beginning of history to provide information on enemy threats and how to prevent a mass disasters. It has been used for wars, national security, military tactics, etc. Intelligence has been available since the revolutionary war and our first president George Washington and

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”

on the constant vigilance of organizations that develop intelligence to foresee and thwart the enemies who want to do harm on the innocent and tarnish an image of both prosperity and tranquility. Intelligence and Homeland Security play vital roles in ensuring plans are in place to act in case a situation arises. Without the required intelligence, Homeland Security is limited on allocating needed resources. Local, State and Federal agencies work tirelessly around the clock to provide adequate and

The intelligence community of the United States is a large, robust and bureaucratic system. From this community though, the national objectives of the United States are supported through their gathering and analytical capabilities. The following paper will highlight the intelligence agencies of the Federal government as well as state and local agencies that make up the intelligence community. Within these entities are programs that develop intelligence for use in protecting the homeland as well

fought forever. The Cold War brought the need for gathering intelligence on enemy countries driving the Cold War into the space race developing artificial intelligence, satellites, which would be used for military use including spying and reconnaissance. Many government agencies were formed and created the Corona Satellite having the most effect on the Cold War intelligence gathering. Without the use of satellites during the Cold War and agencies formed for foreign surveillance, the satellites used daily

believe it's worth noting that across the board the internalized intelligence and lack of transfer of information has led to a lot of pointed fingers from agencies as to whom could have had a better potential of preventing the attacks of 9/11. The police on the ground or in local cities, although there are very few per capita, are very similar to what are known as "boots on the ground" in the sense that they have real time intelligence as well as a pseudo-trained intuition about things that 'just

Security, which then created over 220 different organizations and agencies to combat terrorism and collect intelligence. These agencies and organizations receive orders and directions from the National Intelligence Agency, and employees over 850,000 government employees with an approximate annual budget of $100 million. With a large annual budget and multiple employees working domestically and with foreign policy, the intelligence function has changed dramatically over the last decade and a half

between the intelligence-gatherer and the policy-maker. Since the 1970s the CIA has provided intelligence to Congress as well as to the executive, so that it now "finds itself in a remarkable position, involuntarily poised nearly equidistant" between them. It has not however abused this freedom of action, probably unique among world intelligence agencies, so as to 'cook ' intelligence. CIA deputy director. Robert M. Gates, a career intelligence officer, is Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. He served

No Trailblazer Was Found During 9/11 Brayan Aguilar University Of Massachusetts Boston I will be revising the third paragraph, as the comments show that I wasn’t clear with my claim of the intelligence agencies being very unaware of the damage they have caused while they are trying to fulfill a mission. The way I’m going to rewrite this paragraph, is to give evidence from the text to support my claim rather than give a brief summary of a chapter. No Trailblazer Was Found During 9/11