The dilemma arises when U.S. citizens are treated as enemy combatants not on a foreign battlefield but on American soil. ... Padilla is an invaluable intelligence source. ... Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said that "successful interrogation required a continuing atmosphere of dependency and trust between the subject and interrogator. ...
The NSA weakens the Fourth Amendment protections and affects citizens including journalists, lawyers, and businessmen who often work and communicate with foreigners (Hafetz par.11).The second is that "under the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the NSA has been prohibited from recording domestic communications", but almost all collections are from Americans' data (Stray par.6). ... Moreover, President Barack Obama said that the NSA's actions are managed by "all three branches of the federal government and reviewed regularly by the Foreign Intellige...
Particularly on foreign policy, George Bush has been all over the place. ... No one, for instance, questioned Clinton's intelligence or his knowledge. ... Bush's foreign policy is a shambles -- a war against the wrong enemy (Iraq and not worldwide terrorism), for the wrong reasons (where are those weapons of mass destruction?)... But foreign affairs is not Tom Edison's laboratory -- if this won't work, maybe that will -- but an area where lives are lost and nations suffer. ... In diplomacy, in foreign affairs, in the waging of war and maybe in protecting America, he has mad...
Intelligence officials have reason to believe that Syrian government, headed by President Bashar al'Assad, has a large amount of chemical weapons, but are still unsure as to whether they possess biological weapons (Cave). Syrian Deputy Prime Minister, Jamil Qadri, and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey V. ... The Kremlin has long opposed foreign intervention. Russia, Syria's closest foreign ally, plans to help the Syrian government and its rebels reach a peaceful agreement (Cave). ... "The growing use of air power, particularly fixed-wing aircraft, raises the possibility of forei...
Intelligence officials and military experts on Iraq express caution. ... According to studies released by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Iraq does not have the facilities to make enough material for a nuclear weapon by itself and would need foreign help to do so. ...
One person who backs the president's plan is Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is going to the United Nations on February 5 to share intelligence with its Security Council about Saddam Hussein not accounting for many biological and chemical weapons. ... One of these was hydrogen-based fuel cells, which would not only be cleaner than current fuels, but it would also decrease dependence on foreign oil, specifically Iraqi. ...
In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency created a rumor of an assassination attempt in Guatemala to run the corrupt government out of the country. ... The Central Intelligence Agency was the agency most involved. ... It states: During fiscal year 1985, no further funds available to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, or any other agency or entity of the United States involved intelligence activities may be obligated or expended for the purpose or which would have the effect of supporting directly or indirectly, military or para-military operations in Nicaragua by an...
The State department with 260 posts overseas, mainly concentrates on relations with foreign government and foreign trade and only secondary in people issues such as protection of American citizen abroad and immigration to the United States. " Fundamentally, security and communication is what the department is all about," explained Gartner electronic government analyst Christopher Baum. ... Government agencies are able to communicate and share intelligence in a matter of seconds unlike before. ...
He was a skilled negotiator and had a great understanding of foreign affairs. He probably is remembered most for his achievements in foreign policy and the famous Watergate scandal that forced him to resign his office. ... So Nixon froze wages and prices, cut federal spending, and announced that the United States would not convert foreign-held dollars to gold. ... Inflation and unemployment rose again and Nixon went to the US energy reserves, hoping to end its use of foreign oil. ...
The Prime Minister was deposed by the Shah, and with backing from the CIA and British Intelligence forces, a new Prime Minister was installed with close Western ties. ... The Clinton administration also passed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act 1996, aiming to press foreign companies to join the US in boycotting Iran's oil and gas industry. ... These covert attacks continued, disrupting progress and remaining undetected by Iranian engineers and intelligence. ...
With this law we have given sweeping new powers to both domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies and have eliminated the checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that these powers were not abused. Most of these checks and balances were put into place after previous misuse of surveillance powers by these agencies, including the revelation in 1974 that the FBI and foreign intelligence agencies had spied on over 10,000 U.S. citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr. ...
Three thousand years ago, The Spartans, as they marched out of their city to war, would stop and salute the city gods. These warriors were not sure if they would ever view the city again, but they were secure in knowing that the city-state for which they fought would be protected by the Gods. They...
National security is a theme that includes foreign policy, domestic security and energy independence. Kerry pushes his ideals for national security by arguing that Bush's foreign policy is reckless and Dean "flip-flops" on Iraq and the Middle East. ... As part of his plan to improve national security, Kerry would improve intelligence, port security, and treat those who served in the armed forces fairly. ...
Originally, President Obama planned to follow his foreign policy, and stay out of foreign affairs, but recently he has been left with no choice because due to the pressure of the American people, as well as the active aggression towards the United States by ISIS. ... President Obama's first step was to begin gathering intelligence, and carrying out airstrikes. ...
After he passed away, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference helped for Congress to come up with the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. ... The Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein called drones "the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans". ...
This novel displays the conflicts that infant, post-revolutionary America had to face when dealing with foreign policy, power of government, and differing political ideologies. ... Ellis writes "The economy of the United States was a tangled mess of foreign and domestic debt that he (Alexander Hamilton) was determined to unravel"(pg. 61). ...
Another significant omission in the inaugural address involved clear plans for foreign policy because although he certainly never use the term "imperialism," he was still able to convey an attitude of imperialism by describing America as "a seed upon the world, taking root in many nations", invoking an image of the United States influence in the domestic matters of other countries as beautiful flowering plants that would only develop into blossoming democracy. ... The inaugural address did not spend a great deal of energy on foreign policy, however. ...
The policy's scope was not just foreign; it was also domestic. ... Running cohesively with project echelon this new data center claims to be faster, better, and rumored to have capabilities near artificial intelligence that rivals the problem solving capabilities of Watson, a supercomputer created by IBM that competed on Jeopardy. ...
Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country"(Internet 1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted i...
Commenting on the 90s, Wilson said: ''men of sturdy stocks of the north of Europe had made up the main strain of foreign blood Which was added every year to the vital working force of the country.... but now there came multitudes of men from the lowest class from the south of Italy and men of the meaner sort out of Hungary and Poland''. For Wilson these immigrants had ''neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence'' and looked as if Southern and Eastern countries of Europe'' were shedding the worst and most sordid element...
