THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT: ANALYSIS‚ PROS AND CONS INTRODUCTION The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is an Act of Congress passed in 1978 and signed by the then President Jimmy Carter. The Act stipulates the procedures to be followed when obtaining intelligence from foreign powers and agents of foreign powers both physically and electronically. The Act has been amended severally. In 2001‚ it was amended to involve groups and terrorist organizations not supported by foreign
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QAEDA PLOT LEAK HAS UNDERMINED U.S. INTELLIGENCE How often do we‚ as United States citizens‚ consider how safe we actually are in our country? Without further research we may not realized the potential nationwide threat that has been previously discussed between Ayman al-Zawahri (head of Al Qaeda) and Nasser al-Wuhayshi (head of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda). Hopefully‚ the United States’ intelligence agency has intercepted these messages soon enough before any major action has been made.
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Post 9/11 Intelligence Reform Impact and the Way Ahead Daniel Ratner INTL 444 Professor Mead October 8‚ 2012 Introduction After 9/11‚ an event so shocking‚ and humiliating to both the American people‚ and the U.S. Government‚ vast reforms were identified to ensure that an attack of this magnitude never happened again. From the ashes of this despicable act came two major pieces of Intelligence reform. These documents were the 9/11 Commission Report and The Intelligence Reform Act
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Terrorism and Intelligence Framework HSM 433 Counter Terrorism & Intelligence Analysis January 14‚ 2012 Counter Terrorism and Intelligence Framework Terrorism is the warfare of the future. The battlefield has changed and it will take professional intelligence agencies to gather information about these unorthodox combatants. To help fight the war on terror‚ intelligence corporations must be present. However‚ some of the agencies can be combined with others to make a “super agency”. Three agencies
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Security Challenges Intelligence and Policy in the New Strategic Environment Sandy Gordon Western intelligence services face a significant broadening in the nature of threat. Previously‚ intelligence was predominantly focused on state-on-state threat‚ and to a lesser extent human generated threats such as terrorism and transnational crime. Now new types of threats are emerging‚ such as pandemic disease and global warming. In parallel‚ new technologies and doctrines have re-shaped the contribution
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Executive Summary The function of intelligence has existed since ancient and biblical times for the purpose of informing decision makers and leaders. Until quite recent times one of the unique capabilities of intelligence professionals was access to scarce information. However there has been a transformation in information domain over the last twenty years. Information is no longer a scarce commodity and access to many forms of information is relatively easy. This report will explore and discuss
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In this pack of HCS 490 Week 2 Government Regulatory Agencies and Impact on Consumer Choices Outline you will find the next information: Resource: Government Regulatory Agencies and Impact on Consumer Choices Outline grading criteria located on the student website. Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Agency Overview located on the student website. Health care consumers and providers have access to a variety of health care products and services‚ which may be a benefit and a
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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
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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
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Richard D. White‚ Jr. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent United States Government agency who are responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers (CIA‚2007). Since the 1960 ’s and World War II‚ foreign intelligence has been important to the United States since the days of President George Washington‚ that such efforts have been coordinated on a government-wide level. The Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed in 1949‚ which
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