In this week’s assignment we will be looking at a number of significant issues that are or have confronted the intelligence community in a post 9-11 environment. We will quickly touch on the role the Global War on Terrorism has had on changes to the intelligence community’s position, procedures, and policies along with assessing how the intelligence community has directed it efforts when it comes to dealing with traditional military threats from other countries. It is inarguable that for the large
Intelligence has come a long way since the time around 1,000 B.C. as Egyptian hieroglyphs have revealed and will only continue to grow far into the future. The Intelligence community (IC) will run into challenges far into the future but over the next several years it will be budgetary restructuring/cuts, cyber security implementation, and preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction because a transitional phase within the United States will impact intelligence operations. The intelligence
within the intelligence community. The use of open source information by the intelligence community is not a new phenomenon. During the technological boom of the 21st century open source has expanded well beyond its original capabilities. There is an important difference however between mere information and intelligence. Open source information is defined as “any and all information that can be derived from overt collection” (Lowenthal 2006, p. 273) comparatively open source intelligence (OSINT)
The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is a diverse and complex community of professionals whose due diligence and professionalism provides intelligence information to decision and policy makers. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) made significant changes in the IC however may not have yet gone far enough. The following changes to the IC could enhance what is already foundational. 1) The most drastic change I would recommend would be to create a Cabinet post, Secretary
Introduction In the last few decades, tremendous technological advancement has revolutionised the manner in which intelligence and information are gathered, processed, utilised, and disseminated. According to Curry et al. (2013), organisations are grappling with the challenge of processing and analyzing huge volumes of highly dynamic data. The same challenge continues to be experienced by our intelligence apparatus and those charged with the responsibility of protecting the citizenry from both internal and
compare and contrast the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) roles, responsibilities and current accountability mechanisms. The Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security intelligence service. The functions of ASIO are defined under section 17 of the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation Act 1979, to identify and collect
CIA Research Paper The Central Intelligence Agency is the President’s independent foreign intelligence arm, responsible to him through the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Council, and accountable to the people of the United States by interaction with the intelligence oversight committees of Congress. The CIA has many duties within those boundaries and performs a variety of functions through many forms of intelligence. They employ people from all backgrounds of academic
effective way to help predict possible outcomes in the future is the usage of National Intelligence Estimates (NIE). NIE is defined as “authoritative written judgments on national security issues and designed to help US civilian and military leaders develop policies to protect US national security interests”#(National Intelligence Council, 2007). The NIE is the highest-level strategic document generated by U.S. intelligence agencies. How are NIE’s created? NIE are only produced only when they are requested
Intelligence is one of the first lines of defense tool used by the United States to protect the Country against both foreign and domestic threats (Johnson, 2010). It proved to be veritable tool during the World War II and during the cold war against the USSR. There are many ways and methods of intelligence collections employed by the intelligence community, such as “spies, eavesdropping, technical sources, and openly available materials” etc. (Clark, 2013). Method used also depends on many factors
of collecting and interpreting intelligence, no country has older active agencies than those that can be found in Britain. Britain has faced numerous conflicts over the past one hundred years from fighting a long side the Allies in World War One and World War Two to dealing with the internal issues caused by the IRA, and most of the time it has come out victorious and a lot of credit can be given to it's intelligence services. Since 1909, The Military Intelligence Section Five (MI5) has been working
The Central Intelligence Agency began at a time the country needed it most. They have saved the lives of millions around the world. Throughout history, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has served a key role in acquiring national intelligence for the security purposes of the Untied States of America. The CIA came forth on September 18, 1947, by President Harry S. Truman through the National Security Act (“About CIA” 1). The agency was created to replace the National Intelligence Agency. The CIA’s
will procure intelligence both by overt and covert methods and will at the same time provide intelligence guidance, determine national intelligence objectives, and correlate the intelligence material collected by all government agencies." Despite strong opposition from the military, the State Department, and the FBI, Truman established the Central Intelligence Group in January 1946. Later under the National Security Act of 1947, the National Security council and the Central Intelligence Agency were
person to have served as a director of both the CIA and the NSA. The talk he gave was about “American intelligence in an age of terror,” specifically discussing portions of his new book, which bears the same name. For sake of our discussion, we will focus on only one primary facet of Hayden’s talk--how we should view the role the intelligence community plays in everyday life. One of the first aspects in addressing this was a distinction Hayden made between normal national operations and operations
WWII and into the Cold War. Information that used to take years to obtain through covert missions is now readily available on social media, commercial databases, or through Signals intelligence (SIGINT). As the world becomes more technologically advanced and intelligence sources display new opportunities, the Intelligence Community (IC) has been there to exploit the data to gain the upper hand on the enemy, and support decision makers. Advancements in technology have made the IC what it is today,
The United States Needs a Terrorism Czar Introduction Drug trafficking activity and terrorism activity have much in common. Both drugs and terrorism have strong national security and law enforcement components, they have military components, border control components, economic and trade components, medical components, and agricultural components. Today there are some 50 federal agencies with some degree of counterdrug responsibilities and at least 12 federal agencies with important
The organization I have chosen for this essay is CSIS ( Canadian Security Intelligence Service ). CSIS closely resembles The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) or British Security Intelligence Service. I have chosen this organization because I have great interest in becoming an employee of CSIS in the future. This essay will provide brief history of CSIS, the responsibilities of CSIS for Canada, and the application process for an entry – level position. These will be further discussed in greater
of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence is the most crucial, and key national security agency in the United States government. This agency’s role is to operate the department's intelligence and enforcement functions with the tasks of protecting the financial system against illegal use and combating terrorist nations and enablers, producers of weapons of mass destruction, money launderers, drug dealers, and many other security threats. Terrorism and Financial Intelligence creates and executes U.S
history of the “competition between covert, particularly paramilitary operations, and its core mission of collection and analysis.” Immerman, who currently serves as a Professor of History at Temple University, has held multiple positions within the intelligence network which has granted him access to privy material. He identifies his main questions in regard to the CIA as: What it does and has
Forensics Essay 2014 We negate Resolved: Mass surveillance is not a justified method of governmental intelligence gathering. Mass surveillance is a justified method of governmental intelligence gathering. An example of this is National Security Agency surveillance. National Security Agency Surveillance directly prevents terrorist plots from occurring. According to James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security, there have been 60 Islamic-inspired terrorist attacks on the United States since 9/11
fails to offer an operational definition for transnational wrongdoing. UNTOC defined organized criminality as groups which are involved in TOC but it excluded the groups which launched only single isolated operations According to Louise I. Shelley, Director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption (TraCCC) Centre at George Mason University: Organized crime has been defined as an 'organized illegal activity perpetuated by two or more persons'. These groups are involved in extortion, homicide