Ethical Issues: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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These agencies consist of the following along with a brief of each of their mission in order to keep the United States safe from any potential terrorist attacks that may occur and the problems they face: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) consists of personnel who are the human intelligence organization of the United States. They provide national security intelligences to senior US policy makers. This is a very important group of individuals and the information they provide is very vital in the constant monitoring of information. In the past they have had many issues such as insuring that they data they are providing is accurate and reliable when its presented to the upper chain of command. The information they gathered over …show more content…

There are many problems that all the agencies till face and that is because some American citizens do not like what is going on when it comes to gathering information. Many feel that their rights have been violated and the law needs to be changed and that has also caught the attention of Senators in Washington. This has sparked a trust issue between the American people and the U.S. Intelligence programs. The Senate was trying to renew the NSA spying Authority and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) stated, “If they come back with that effort to basically extent this for a short term without major reforms like ending the collection of phone records, I do intend to …show more content…

Now this is not a direct hit on them for knowing what was going to happen but it puts a spotlight on them when it comes to the average citizen. First thought was how the IC didn’t know or was prepared of such a possible cyber terrorism attack? It’s all speculation on what happened and who knew any information about the "attack". The agencies that make up this unique unit is always under the gun because whatever happens in the United States or abroad and there was not any information provided to prevent them, then heads roll and leads to constant bashing in the media. To switch it up when it comes to gathering information about potential terrorist attacks, one cannot forget that there is a constant uphill battle when it comes to finding out any information about suicide bombers. Now they only have been conducted overseas, but they could also be used to harm American citizens in those Middle East

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