National Security Letter Essays

  • Comparison of McCarthyism and the U.S. Patriot Act

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    Through the 1940s and 1950s, America was beleaguered with anxieties about the menace of communism arising in Eastern Europe and China. Profiting out of such worries of the nation, young Senator Joseph McCarthy made an open charge that hundreds of "card-carrying" communists had penetrate in the United States government. Although his allegations were found ultimately to be false and the Senate reproached him for improper ways, his ardent shakeup heralded as one of the most tyrannical era in 20th-century

  • Persuasive Essay On Government Surveillance

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    In today’s society, the subject of government surveillance is one of the nation’s most controversial topic. Since Snowden’s leakage of confidential National Security Agency (NSA) information, the United States citizens have confirmation the government is “spying” on them through phone, internet, and public communications. Government officials have spoken to the people, saying it is for safety measures; to protect citizens from potential terrorism and catastrophes like the bombing attack of 9/11.

  • Herbert M. Bautista

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    Profile HERBERT M. BAUTISTA mpa, mnsa Quezon City Vice Mayor Presiding Officer, 15th City Council President, National Movement of Young Legislators Vice Mayor Herbert M Bautista is probably one of the youngest officials of the country who has had a long and fruitful experience in government and the youth movement. From 1986 to 1989, he was President of the Kabataang Barangay National Federation and was appointed ex-officio City Councilor representing the Youth Sector of Quezon City. From 1992

  • The Role Of Mass Surveillance In The 21st Century

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    The 21st Century has brought new security challenges where there are a hybrid of threats never seen before. The intersection of threats that are cyber, nuclear, narcotic, and trafficking means that there needs to be a national security infrastructure that can respond to the evolving environment. However, there is a tradeoff to relying on the government to protect and ensure the safety of the public. Mass surveillance is one of the major practices that allow civilian and military institutions to address

  • Carmella Iacovetta The Power of the Profile

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    When it comes to personal information in America, the genie is out of the bottle. As such, information security will continue to be a pressing concern especially to most of our top three-letter-agencies such as the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), NSA (National Security Agency), DOD (Department of Defense), and HS (Homeland Security) as most of them are staffed with employees with top secret security clearances (also known as TS).When someone is given this clearance, not only are they slated to uphold

  • Cyber Security Case Study

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    medium sized town in the upper Mid-West of the United States. No personal information was obtained as well as no pertinent financial data abstracted from the interview. Question 1- As a bank executive how important is cyber security? Answer-Well, Jack, as a bank executive cyber security is incredibly important to our bank as well as myself. With banks of all types you have board members, regulatory service, as well as the customer service aspect of the industry and the brand name.

  • Protecting Yourself Against the Treats of Cyberspace

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    Cyber Security It seems like everyone in today’s society has access to a computer, a cell phone, or some other type of technology that allows information to be passed from one person to another through space. With your private information out there in cyberspace, clever thieves are finding ways to access your personal informational and to steal from you without you even knowing about it until it is too late. The thieves are taking your personal data and using it to gain access to your accounts

  • Digital Dystopia Surveilance

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    Digital Dystopia - Essay Link 1: The article and the video are from the RT network which is a report by the RT network about surveillance. Link 2: The article comes from a contributor on the Forbes website. It is a letter to the editor. There have been many predictions made in movies, books or other published material about how surveillance in the future would be. We can’t predict it perfect but there are many signs about how it would be. Digital Surveillance is when the government checks your internet

  • Theme Of Surveillance In 1984

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    figurehead that they will never meet. Thought Police is a group of people from the country Oceania. They are the secret police that work for Big Brother and use telescreens, microphones, informers to search for citizens who would commit thoughtcrime. All letters sent by mail are inspected and checked by the mail service. There is no such thing as private mail. O’Brian a member of the though police lured Winston in with a book explaining strategies that can help you avoid the surveillance of the Thought

  • Transcription from a Broadcast of Network 23

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    The first point was that in the early 1970's, Henry Kissinger wrote a top secret document-a National Security Memorandum ("NSM 200") -- in which he indicated that "depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World." This Memorandum which can be obtained from the US National Archives, which was only declassified very quietly in 1990, was adopted by the National Security Council as official US foreign policy towards the Third World. Now, this is a classic example

  • The Downfall of the Black Panther Party

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    one of many different “radical” groups that were targeted by this FBI led program. According to Wolf, “the FBI set out to eliminate radical political opposition inside the US.” J.Edgar Hoover, who once called the BPP as the ‘greatest threat to national security’, and the FBI used any means required to demolish this threat. “ When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it

  • Cybercrime And Identity Theft Essay

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    In today’s world, we are all in some way connected to or involved with the Internet, it is really hard not to be. We all use different services that we feel either augment our daily lives or make them more pleasurable every day. We all take a sort of deceitful comfort in the basic inconspicuousness of the Internet. When we think about it, could it end up being the single biggest risk to our own safety? Most people don’t take the threat of cybercrimes as seriously because unfortunately they don’t

  • Life During Westward Expansion

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    In 1845, a fellow named John C. Calhoun coined the term "Manifest Destiny." The term Manifest Destiny was a slogan for westward expansion during the 1840's. In the west there was plenty of land, national security, the spread of democracy, urbanization, but there was also poverty out west. People moved out west in search for a new life such as a new beginning. Moving out west, settlers from the east were taking a risk of a lot of things. The climate was different and there were more cultures that

  • The Ethics of Workplace Surveillance

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    federal appeals court judge, Alex Kozinski, ordered the administrative office to withdraw software tracking the online activities of all employees in his Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Because the recent September 11 terrorist attacks heightened national security paranoia, bureaucrats in the court’s administrative office proposed a surveillance policy entailing unrestricted administrative review of emails and Internet use of all 30,000 federal court employees, including judges. The panel of judges decided

  • Frank Serpico Essay

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    The problem that faced the security sector is the lack of a good atmosphere in which honest officers can perform their duties freely without threats from the fellow officers. Frank worked hard to reverse the situation in which the dishonest officers fear and respect the honest officers

  • I Have Been To The Darkest Corner Summary

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    In his essay “I Have Been to the Darkest Corners,” Glenn Greenwald attempts to convince the reader that Edward Snowden did not betray the U.S by leaking top-secret government documents proving that the government is spying on its citizens. He even goes as far as aiming to persuade people into believing that Snowden is actually a hero and martyr for enlightening the general public by focusing on the clear distinction between those in the know (the government) and the common people, who did not know

  • MGT510: Computer Security And Legal Issues

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    is 4Q-CSC635X-A1-07-Computer Security and Legal Issues-Fall 2015. This course is a completely online course. The name of the instructor for the course is Nathan, Johnson. Another class I’m taking this quarter is 4Q-MGT510Z-AGMG02S-01-Managerial Communication Skills-Fall 2015. This course is hybrid course. We will meet during the hybrid weekend to take this class. The name of the instructor for the course is Anna, Stamp. Outcomes from 4Q-CSC635X-A1-07-Computer Security and Legal Issues course: According

  • The United States Needs a Terrorism Czar

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    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

  • Security Threats and Trade Barriers

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    Security Threats and Trade Barriers "As defence, however, is much more important than opulence..." In 1776, even as Adam Smith was championing the ideals of a free market economy, he recognized that the interests of national security far outweighed the principles of free trade. More then two centuries later, that sentiment proves to still be accurate and in use. Since the early 1900s, the United States has used this precept to defend its position on trade barriers to hostile nations, and

  • GPS Safety Bubble Technology

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    navigation has been revolutionized. GPS was initially developed by the Department of Defense for primarily military uses, but has since been made available to the general public. In 1996 the National Security Council published the following goals for the GPS system: • To strengthen and maintain national security. • To encourage acceptance and integration of GPS into peaceful civil, commercial and scientific applications worldwide. • To encourage private sector investment in and use of U.S. GP