The National Security Act Of 1947

Hello, Dominique. I’ve enjoyed reading your post. Like you said prevent of inside threat is one of ways to conduct strategic counter intelligence. As we know, cyber security is crucial to protecting US computers, networks, programs and data unauthorized access. There are many cases that our government data has been stolen by the hackers from foreign entities including 4 million federal employee records. However, we can’t rule out the inside threats. There are so many spying cases from the insider whom worked either for foreign governments or businesses. These inside threats were not unnoticed for months and sometimes years and it caused great damage to US interests. Therefore, pursue of the real creation of a discipline in strategic counterintelligence

The National Foreign Intelligence Program prevents foreign espionage with investigating foreign cases within the U.S. borders. Also the Intelligence Program is involved with threats, weapons in mass destruction, including the nation’s critical infrastructures such as communications, banking systems, and transportation systems.

There are many significant events in history that have developed our nation into what it is now. One key event was the National Security Act of 1947. The purpose National Security Act was to help strengthen national security, bring together the U.S. Government, and complete unification of the armed forces. This would be cause of the expansion of new government agencies. Some questions arise about the National Security Act of 1947 like, what was the impact the National Security Act on the U.S. Government? Or was the National Security Act of 1947 necessary? Some historians say the Act was created because President Truman didn’t want another incident like the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor that was a surprise attack by the Japanese military

The 1776 united States of America Declaration of Independence contain the words that succinctly describe our national objective, strategy, and message, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” In today’s United States of America, the world acknowledges American’s as the preeminent owner of individual freedoms, holding and promoting these three basic principles for some 240 years. During these years, the U.S. has employed the use of intelligence to shape its objectives and strategies, and then in times of war used the same intelligence to shape strategic messages against foreign powers. However, as hostilities decline and give way to the restoration of relative peace, the use of intelligence for strategic messages against foreign powers ceases. Under these circumstances, the void created by secession of U.S. messages, provides a communication opportunity to foreign powers for transmission of anti-U.S. messages. Attempts have been made to reinstate the offices that during war countered these anti-U.S. messages to a comprehensive reorganization of the U.S Government intelligence community. This paper does not support creation of a new agency or department to utilize existing strategic intelligence.

Since 1947, when the Central Intelligence Agency was created, the United States has had an organization that has the sole purpose of conducting covert operations, collecting information, and providing that same information to the respective personnel. Although, this, by some, has been considered conflictual as the CIA is handling those three actions. It is considered that this may be a conflict of interest in a means of, the same people that are collecting information, creating a bias opinion, are conducting the covert action being carried out. This could create a bias work environment. Due to the professionalism and 60 years of success to show for it, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Clandestine Service (NCS) conducting

Providing for the common defense means that the United States government must preserve the rights, freedom, and safety of the nation as a whole. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) fulfills this goal, as the agency collects, analyzes, and processes information at an international level and utilizes the data to further bolster our nation’s intelligence and security against foreign countries. Without the CIA, we would not be able to be one of the strongest nations on the planet.

As if it were not enough with all of these new security acts and suppositions that the government needed to do more to keep us safe. In late December 2010, the New York Times article revealed that President Obama and also his predecessor George W. Bush, had secretly authorized and approved the National Security Agency (NSA) having access to wiretap domestic phone calls and emails without obtaining legally required warrants. Through the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) administrative institutions were permitted to wiretap on an emergency basis and apply for warrants without the necessary legal authorization, the administration thought that FISA was too monotonous and cumbersome pertaining to urgent issues of national security.

Even though President Truman implemented the Executive Order 9835 in order to ensure the attainment of national security, it failed to do so in a legal manner. Any national intelligence program such as the HUAC could not have legally used Truman 's loyalty program in order to attain national security. The National Security Act of 1947 states that the methods of investigation utilized by national intelligence programs should be “free of political considerations” (“National Security Act of 1947,” 12). Executive Order 9835 shows how the HUAC 's methods of investigation failed to be independent of political considerations. As a broken loyalty program, Truman’s Executive Order was very opinionated. Any individual or organization deemed disloyal by the government without any evidence of intending to subvert would be subject to further investigations done by congressional investigation committees and other national intelligence programs. Those conjectured as political leftists or fascists fell victim to loyalty screening despite not truly being of an insubordinate nature. In this way, the broken system of loyalty determination created by Executive Order 9835 cannot be justified through the attainment of national security since the Executive Order failed to be independent of political opinions. Consequently, the HUAC failed to comply with the official mandates of the National Security Act since its methods of investigation were politically biased.

The National Security Act of 1947 centralized command and promoted intelligence sharing between institutions by establishing a Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of Central Intelligence, and NSC. The President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Air Force, and Chairman of the National Security Resources Board composed the original statutory members of the NSC. The President was also authorized to designate other specified officials to the NSC. The NSC staff, which is separate from “the Council,” comprises politically appointed individuals and civil servants organized in specialized directorates. The primary function of the NSC is to advise the President on “domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the national security.” The NSC acts as a coordinator between departments and agencies across government, and relies on accurate and insightful reports from them to develop national security policy recommendations for the President. The NSC is unique because it both consumes intelligence to make recommendations to the President, and guides intelligence activities by coordinating policies across government.

One of the biggest challenges for the Intelligence Community (IC) is the balance between gathering actionable intelligence using a variety of intelligence gathering methods with violating the civil liberties of United States citizens. As we discussed last week oversight of the IC by our congressional leaders is at the forefront of ensuring civil liberties and funding for programs are not being abused. The American citizens depend on the congress and the IC to ensure civil liberties are adhered to during all intelligence gathering. The problem is security of information and at times having to reach the tipping point of civil liberties to ensure the public stay safe can cause concern.

Counterintelligence: exposing, preventing, and investigating intelligence activities on U.S. soil; foreign espionage strikes at the heart of national security, impacting political, military, and economic strengths.

Countermeasures: Detect insider threats. Insiders have caused grave, long-term damage to national security. History has demonstrated the intent of foreign intelligence services and entities to penetrate the Intelligence Community and extract information using a trusted insider – recruited or volunteer. The Intelligence Community must be positioned to detect, respond to, and deter this threat. Currently, the Intelligence Community is creating a unified approach to combating insider threats. The Insider Threat Advisory Group (ITAG) leverages information assurance, security, and counterintelligence to detect, deter, and mitigate the insider threat. The ITAG has identified fundamental insider threat elements, will define their "best practices,"

Counterintelligence refers to the activity of averting others from doing unto us what we aspire to do unto them (Nolte, 2009). Notably, counterintelligence is an important operation of any professional surveillance agency. However, it raises both moral and legal matters of significant importance (Wiggins, 2015). Most clearly, spying on behalf of an alien country is an offense in the U.S.A and even in any other state. In the American setting, it means that intelligence analysts must conduct investigations along traditional platforms necessitating a assumption of innocence. Nevertheless, on an operational level, any counterespionage investigation places a relatively large number of innocent people under suspicion. Notably, as Verble (2014) argues, espionage in a foreign country might not harm individuals

Abstract: In this analysis, it is shown throughout the many different agencies how the intelligence cycle is interpreted. Within each of the different agencies everyone has their own way of obtaining information and different policies that they follow, within the constriction of the US constitution. The intelligence cycle states the many different steps taken to obtain intelligence from domestic to foreign information.

Other intelligence operations also consist of covert, counterintelligence operations. Counterintelligence is usually used to collect information about the adversary and weaken foreign intelligence operations. Sabotage, spying, and infiltration are all characteristics of foreign intelligence operations. Covert operations hide the identity of the agent(s) or officer(s) executing the operations. If operations are compromised, this protects the agent(s) against retaliation from the enemy.