...I have always had a dream to work with the Federals Bureau, the FBI. Since I watched an episode of Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, I always have been drawn to figure out a crime scene. This episode consisted of forensic scientists and agents testing ink to determine who wrote a note. Ever since I saw those scientists doing their jobs, I have had a passion to do so myself. In the career of an FBI special agent, depending on the day, depends what work I will have to do. I would think if I had a crime scene file, I will figure out pieces to connect the puzzle of the crime. If it is a day where I don’t have a case, I would probably figure out someway I can investigate a scene. This job definitely requires many responsibilities. An example of these responsibilities...
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...federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.” The FBI investigates and oversees many different types of threats against the U.S., including: terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber crime, weapons of mass destruction, civil rights, organized crime, white-collar crime, and public corruption. This federal agency was created on July 26, 1908, and is described...
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...Argument The Need for the FBI Over the years, the FBI has grown from a small bureau into a service that not only the nation needs, but also the world. It has helped in many significant cases throughout history, such as Al Capone, the Unabomber, Bonnie and Clyde, and without the FBI, would not have been solved or taken care of as easily (“Famous Cases” 1). These have proven to make the environment a better place to live in. The FBI is needed to protect the country’s safety and the well being of each individual daily. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has grown to be an immune system that is needed, to protect the country, the individual’s and the environment that is lived in every single day, by protecting us from terrorism, cyber fraud, technology crime, etc. The Federal Bureau’s history is actually exceptionally complex and interesting. It happens to “originat[e] from a force of Special Agents created in 1908 by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt” (“FBI History” 1). But when it was first founded it rarely had to deal with federal crimes. Bonaparte and Roosevelt worked together to figure out the ways that the FBI would come together to help the country and how it would benefit from this government service. One of their genius ways to improve the country’s safety was by “creating a corps of Special Agents” (“FBI History” 1). Although some believed that Bonaparte was a Progressive, at other times they believe that he was not. (Jones...
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...of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation 2012 The Strategic Information and Operations Center at FBI Headquarters is the 24/7 command post that monitors FBI operations and law enforcement activities around the globe. An FBI agent examines a potentially contaminated letter during a white powder training exercise. 2012 The FBI Story I A Message from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III For the FBI and its partners, 2012 was a year that reminded us once again of the seriousness of the security threats facing our nation. During the year, extremists plotted to attack—unsuccessfully, thanks to the work of our Joint Terrorism Task Forces—the U.S. Capitol, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and other landmarks on U.S. soil. Tragically, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, a hateful attack in Benghazi took the lives of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. In the cyber realm, a rising tide of hackers took electronic aim at global cyber infrastructure, causing untold damages. High-dollar white-collar crimes of all kinds also continued to siphon significant sums from the pocketbooks of consumers. And in Newtown, Connecticut, 20 young children and six adults lost their lives in one of the worst mass shootings in American history, ending a year of violence that saw similar tragedies around the country. Working with its colleagues around the globe, the FBI is committed to taking a leadership role in protecting the nation. As you can see from this book—an annual...
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...paper is John Edgar Hoover. John Edgar Hoover was the first director of The Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was the most important factor in the creation of the FBI in 1935. He remained the director of the FBI until his death in 1972. He was well connected politically and was considered to be extremely efficient and well organized. John Edgar Hoover was born on January 1, 1895. His father passed away when he was young and his death severely lowered the finances in the family’s household. Hoover was forced to get a job and found work at the Library of Congress. During his time at the Library of Congress, he also studied law at George Washington University. Hoover graduated in 1917 and found work with the Justice Department. He quickly worked his way up through the ranks and, in two years, became Special Assistant to the Attorney General. He spent his early years in the Justice Department, heading an organization which gathered evidence on communists in America, which led to arrests and deportation. Hoover would later work in the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the FBI under his supervision. He also helped introduce new innovations to police technology, such as centralized finger print files and forensic laboratories. J. Edgar Hoover accomplished many things as the director of the FBI during his reign. Although he was an intricate part of crime fighting during his time, he gained a reputation for political persecution. He seemed to hold vendettas...
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...to put in his best time to be in the FBI before he died (“Wikipedia”). He worked with everyone there and they got it done when Hoover was there (“Wikipedia”). Dedication and attention to detail led to his success at the FBI (“Wikipedia”). From improving the FBI, to his controversial leadership tactics, and his war on the FBI itself, these were some factors of his achievement (“Wikipedia”). The FBI was his favorite job because he fought crime and brought them to justice (“Wikipedia”). J. Edgar Hoover was the first...
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...handlers in busy public locales, and snuck into the Communist country adorned with a fake passport. “Your honor, I engaged in the activity that brought me before you because I obeyed my conscience rather than the law. I believe our government's policy towards Cuba is cruel and unfair, profoundly unneighborly, and I felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our efforts to impose our values and our political system on it.” (Montes, 2012) Montes gave this statement to the presiding judge who presided over Magistrate Number: 01-0568M. (United States of America versus Ana Belen Montes, Defendant., 2002) Montes showed no remorse, no contrition, and no regret for her actions through her career as an agent for the DI. The purpose of this brief is to explain the life, career working for the United States (U.S.) Government and Cuban government, the downfall which resulted, and the sentencing of DIA Analyst General Schedule (GS)-14 Ana Belen Montes. On 28 February 1957, Montes was born in West Germany, on a U.S. Army base. Montes was the oldest child of Emilia and Alberto Montes. Alberto Montes was a respected Army doctor who moved his family often, due to the assignments he received. Montes moved from West Germany throughout the Midwest, and finally settled in Towson, Maryland (MD). After Montes’ father separated from the U.S. Army,...
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...There have been a number of times in the United States history where there have been secret and top secret information has been disclosed or sold to another nation. Two of these occasions, unrelated, were because of Robert Philip Hanssen and Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia. Hanssen was an FBI agent who decided to sell top foreign intelligence and laundry list of other top secret information to Soviet Russian intelligence agencies. Hanssen’s actions are considered espionage because he was purposefully hiding what he was doing while employed by the FBI and using his clearance for his personal gain. Gowadia sold his own work in which he developed while working for Northrop Corp, which was actually selling military secrets. Gowadia sold these military secrets to China which resulted in the development of similar aircraft. The result of the actions of these two men was great damage to national security and putting at risk the safety of many, many people of not only the United States, but many people across the globe....
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...associate degree is just the start to my path in this future of technologies. I have struggled most of my life, and then I join the service after high school. Why did I do that? I really didn’t have any direction in my life. I was clueless when it came down to what career I really wanted to see myself doing and truly enjoying it. The hardest part was admitting that I had no interest in anything. So that’s when I decided to join the military thinking that with time I could figure out what is my passion and I truly enjoy doing. After completing four and a half years of active duty, being deployed to Iraq and going overseas to Honduras it opened my eyes. That’s when I noticed I love all about the computer Intel and secret missions. What is military intelligence? It’s the primary mission of military intelligence in the United States Army is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence and electronic warfare support to tactical, operational and strategic-level commanders. In other words, they work with all Special Forces, Delta, FBI, DEA, CIA and other special operations teams and finding information of any illegal actions that will hurt the USA. While in Honduras, I was tasked out on special missions with the DEA in dealing with narcotics. It was the best experience I ever had. Well not the off subject, I completed my active duty time and...
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...Success The Journey to Becoming a Criminal Investigator Criminal Justice provides a broad understanding of our criminal system. Serving as law enforcement, correctional probate, U.S. marshal, homicide specialist, or even a paralegal has so many benefits. Going into this career as an entry-level graduate with an associate’s degree preparing, is defiantly a requirement. Achieving overall success in this field makes education essential. Across the nation there is a very high demand for the criminal justice career sector. The growth is continuous, threw out several decades to come estimates showing at least a ten percent by the year 2018. Becoming a criminal investigator has lots of benefits, serving your community being evolved in solving crimes, the personal profile, such a positive job outlook, as well as the salary (RTI, 1958) Everyone wants and needs money, law enforcement and correctional probate officers average twenty-eight dollars and hour approximately 80,000 annually ("Crime scene investigator," 2012)Special agents, U.S. Marshalls, and paralegal careers for example receive better earnings such as 140,000 and higher. Not every career is undemanding and leisurely. Criminal Investigations particularly is among the more commonly known as very demanding, stressful, challenging, or even at times problematic. Preparing is a must; you have to be ready mentally as well as physically. Some crime scenes you come across can be critical and...
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...to a new kind of terrorism. 3.1 FROM THE OLD TERRORISM TO THE NEW: THE FIRST WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING At 18 minutes after noon on February 26, 1993, a huge bomb went off beneath the two towers of the World Trade Center.This was not a suicide attack.The terrorists parked a truck bomb with a timing device on Level B-2 of the underground garage, then departed.The ensuing explosion opened a hole seven stories up. Six people died. More than a thousand were injured. An FBI agent at the scene described the relatively low number of fatalities as a miracle.1 President Bill Clinton ordered his National Security Council to coordinate the response. Government agencies swung into action to find the culprits.The Counterterrorist Center located at the CIA combed its files and queried sources around the world. The National Security Agency (NSA), the huge Defense Department signals collection agency, ramped up its communications intercept network and searched its databases for clues.2 The New York Field Office of the FBI took control of the local investigation and, in the end, set a pattern for future management of terrorist incidents. Four features of this episode have significance for the story of 9/11. 71 72 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT First, the bombing signaled a new terrorist challenge, one...
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...“Everyone makes a big deal out of the fact that I became a spy. It's because spying is such an unusual crime, but what they don't understand is that I became a spy because that is what I had access to. If I'd worked in a bank, I would have taken money. If I'd had access to dope, I would have sold drugs. The fact that I became a spy is really insignificant. The point is that I became a spy because I needed money. It was as simple as that.” John Walker quoted in the book, Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring, authored by Pete Early (New York: Bantam Books, 1988). John Walker was born on 28 July 1937, the second son of James and Peggy Walker. His home life and upbringing was less than ideal, to say the least; his father was a violent alcoholic who eventually drove the family to bankruptcy and then abandoned them. As an adolescent, John Walker became first a troublemaker and eventually a petty criminal. After a high-speed chase through town when he was 17, he was caught by the police for burglarizing a men’s clothing store and a gas station. Arthur Walker, his older brother, had joined the U.S. Navy directly after graduating high school. Arthur Walker intervened and convinced the judge to allow John to join the U.S. Navy as well. It was quite common at the time to force problematic young men into military service in lieu of serving jail time. The school of thought was that military service would straighten him out and give him discipline and a direction...
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...was intended to create a single united command front to combat an international war on drugs. in its early stages the DEA began with a total of 1,470 Special Agents and a budget of smaller than $75 million. Today, the DEA has almost 5,000 Special Agents and a budget of $2.02 billion. The Drug Enforcement Agency is funded through the Department of Justice. The DEA is the lead agency in drug trafficking, drug related major crimes, Drug Importation from abroad and all drug investigations. The agency was created to enforce Federal Drug laws and to consolidate...
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...scandal is said that, five burglars were arrested for stealing copies of top-secret documents and hacking into the office’s phones in the Watergate building in Washington DC. It was thought at first to be an ordinary burglary, but when the connection was made that the perpetrators were in relation to Nixon’s reelection campaign, (CRP) questions did not go unasked. While most were not sure if Nixon was involved or knew about Watergate, it later came to light that Nixon was trying to cover up, arranging thousands of dollars in “hush money” to the burglars in an attempt to keep them quiet. Later himself and his assistants came up with a plan to mandate the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hinder with the ongoing investigation of the FBI. This action only put Nixon more...
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...Rap COINTELPRO: Subverting the power of Hip-Hop By FinalCall.com News Updated Jul 24, 2005, 10:53 pm One-on-One with BlackElectorate.com's Cedric Muhammad |[pic] | Political commentator Cedric Muhammad published a series of Rap COINTELPRO articles on his website (BlackElectorate.com) beginning in 2000 initially dealing with the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Tupac Shakur (2Pac) and Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.) With great insight, in later parts of the series, Brother Cedric broadened the topical range identifying and investigating the stratagem implemented by a growing number of police departments across the United States dealing specifically with increased surveillance – some would even say harassment – of Hip Hop artists and the peculiar treatment of crimes occurring within the Hip Hop community. Brother Cedric spoke with Final Call Online Correspondent Ashahed Muhammad about the relationship of those subjects to the global strategy of the infamous J. Edgar Hoover – whose plan was to stifle progressive activism within the Black community and to prevent the rise of a "Black Messiah." Ashahed Muhammad (AM): Thank you for taking time out of your schedule. I know you are busy writing, publishing, being a consultant and political advisor, etc. I appreciate you taking the time to speak with me today. Cedric Muhammad (CM): Thank you. And it’s of course the greatest honor to be interviewed...
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