... - also known as the NSA. Their main goal is to intercept, analyze, and store any sort of communication signals, whether overseas or within the United States, to gain foreign intelligence and counterintelligence and provide as much security to the nation as possible (NSA, 2011). While the NSA collects and stores all phone records of every American citizen, they also have ... Washington. Washington's area code was mistakenly entered in when the NSA intended to retrieve information overseas from India (Gellman, 2013, para. 4). The article proceeds to describe a case where the Foreign Intell...

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... " (Vest par. 7). Furthermore, the NSA works as an intelligence agency which protects U.S. government communications and information systems. With that reason, the NSA collects American's communications to serve intelligence activities. President Obama stated that the NSA is an effective intelligence agency "The NSA is a useful tool to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information. It is also one of the most important centers ... of foreign language analysis and research within the government" ( Heavy Staff par. 15). The ... ...

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... 2014). One important facet to keep in mind concerning the National Security Agency is their government provision. Indeed, the NSA works "tirelessly " with other federal provisioned initiatives, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) in order to protect our borders, while investigating and prosecuting any threats to ... not the NSA should still operate, especially because of past incidents where the NSA, in conjunction with the Legislative Branch, have erred while on their journey for ac...

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... who lives in the United States. This is possible for the NSA because they have their interpretation of the Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment, which was allowed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The NSA takes advantage of how the Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment have not caught up to the new and rapidly growing advancements of technology. This shows ... the FBI, indiscriminately collected the telephone records of millions of US Verizon customers – regardless of whether they were suspected of wrongdoing -- under atop secret court order granted by the Foreign Intelligence ...

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... "It seems likely that a bulk collection program would have resulted in a successful terrorist attack instead of a thwarted one bulk collection efforts make target programs less valuable by burying good intelligence within larger volumes of useless information." (Erwin 15) A large-scale collection of the data of every person in the United States is an appalling idea because the information can ... the NSA clearly cannot solve for preventing terrorism. The NSA's programs are highly illegal and violate international law. "Democracy building through promotion of Internet freedom is a stated a...

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