Classified information in the United States

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    founding of the United States of America. Since then, America has had numerous presidential elections, fifty-seven to be precise. As America nears the end of the fifty-eighth presidential election the public are left to vote for either you, business man Donald Trump or Senator Hillary Clinton for president. As a presidential candidate you have gone through you fair shares of struggles, risks, and excruciating work however, only one candidate can be named the president of the United States on November

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    controversial leaks of classified information was the whistle blowing campaign of Edward J. Snowden. Mr. Snowden had exposed and shared an enormous amount of classified documents about the National Security Agency’s surveillance on the American populace. Snowden admits he exposed the information because he believes the NSA and U.S. government were using surveillance and privacy information collection practices that deeply violated the U.S. people. Once he released all of the classified information, he was immediately

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    will make her the first woman president of the United States of America. Hillary is not only facing some obstacles with the Republican Party, but as well with the US government who are seeking an indictment to put Hillary behind bars. The US government says that Hillary broken some regulations, and by breaking those regulations she broke the law. This regulation’s where broken while she was serving her term as Secretary of State for the United States. Many people believe that Hillary Clinton should

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    The United States today is becoming more and more dependant upon technological developments to gather intelligence. The “secret agents” of yesterday are very close to being obsolete. With technology becoming the prime source of intelligence gathering, there is an assumption that other countries are gathering intelligence in similar ways. The only way to combat intelligence gathering against the United States is to know what technological intelligence collection resources are being used for gathering

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    In late 2009 and early 2010, a not for profit website called WikiLeaks posted classified US military documents showing all of the mistakes made by the US military and its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. WikiLeaks does so much more than just release classified documents about the US military; they are no different from the New York Times in that “WikiLeaks is a project of the Sunshine Press” (Assange). WikiLeaks is an international online, non-profit, journalistic organization that publishes leaks

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    collection of email and telephone data from Verizon, which later was found to be even more broad than just Verizon data. Just a few days later on June, 12, 2013, the South China Morning Post published an interview with Snowden that stated that United States intelligence agents have been

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    foreign hosts while his wife was secretary of State. Having all those speaking fees occur during that timeframe gives a conflict of interest appearance also having her “personal emails” removed gives another impression that she is trying to hide something perhaps from one of these foreign hosts or with her ties to people involved with the Panama scandal. Hillary Clinton has gone back on to the claim that none of the e-mails she received were “marked classified” at the time they were handled. The government

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    functions of the four agencies within the Department of Justice. I would like to start with the Bureau of Corrections. I chose this one first, because I work for the Department of Corrections. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) or BOP is a United States federal law enforcement agency. A sector of the U.S. Department of Justice, the BOP is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system such as white collar crimes, bank robberies, fraudulent check writing basically any crime associated

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    around the world are constantly using the internet. It has become common practice for people to submit their private and confidential information on the web for practical, entertainment and business purposes. That being the case, the internet has turned into a vulnerable place for others to have access to these classified materials. The retrieval of private information of an individual is not the only issue. Terrorist attacks via the internet are a major concern as well. Unlike individual attacks, terrorist

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    Technological information leaking cases. It provides a clear explanation about the criminal charges against Edward Snowden, a former CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) employee, a former contractor for the United States government, he copied and leaked classified information from the NSA organization without permissions in 2013. Snowden was charged with three different felonies on June 2013, as he stole a governmental property unauthorized communication of national defense information. The following

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