Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq." United States Select Senate Committee on Intelligence (9 July 2004), 179. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB234/SSCI_phaseI_excerpt.pdf] [13: "Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq." United States Select Senate Committee on Intelligence (9 July 2004), 181. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB234/SSCI_phaseI_excerpt.pdf]
The Carnegie Endowment concluded in its 2004 report that "the dramatic shift between prior intelligence assessments and the October 2002 NIE" indicated an undercurrent of pressure brought into the intelligence community from outside sources.[footnoteRef:14] This undercurrent was identified by the Carnegie Endowment as "an independent intelligence entity… Continue Reading...
regard, the NSA emphasizes that, “The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a key member of the Intelligence Community and, by its very nature, requires a high degree of confidentiality” (NSA frequently asked questions, 2014). Despite these vagaries, the NSA does state how it goes about intelligence-gathering today:
The Agency collects, processes, and disseminates intelligence information from foreign electronic signals for national foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes and to support military operations. NSA/CSS is also tasked with preventing foreign adversaries from gaining access to classified national security information. (NSA frequently asked questions, 2014, para. 3).
Finally, the same Executive Order that created the NSA also outlined… Continue Reading...
intelligence community was very aware that Russia was trying to influence the election and help secure a victory for Donald Trump.
However, since the election, there is an increasing amount of evidence that Russian interference in the election was more significant than initially believed. The first type of interference was Russia’s meddling in American media, particularly in social media. There is a growing body of evidence showing that Russian trolls played a significant role in social media prior to the election. These trolls helped drive the nature and tone of… Continue Reading...
environment through the integration of air, space and cyber capabilities, focusing on strategic implications. Integration of these capabilities is expected to multiply in the coming years. For effective execution of the global situational awareness, the intelligence community of the Air Force must conduct surveillance and reconnaissance. Air diplomacy is the employment of power through deterrence, humanitarian assistance and power projection, taking advantage of inherent power capabilities. Even today, freedom of action in air, space and cyber encounters direct threats. The Air Force must therefore develop resilience in space and cyber systems for the creation of an effective deterrence system. Military support for civil authority is mainly focused on the management of natural and man-made disasters (Sokolovskii, 1963; Crane, 2000).
In the future, nations will rely… Continue Reading...
