Question 1
For this Discussion Board, respond to the following tasks.
TASK #1. Select two national security organizations (1stchoice, 2nd choice) and two career fields or specific jobs (1st choice, 2nd choice). Your choices will be the basis for creating teams for the presentations on October 12. We will identify teams in class on Friday, October 5.
TASK #2. Read Chapter 9 in our textbook (SWC, 2013) and explore the Intelligence Community website. Take the IC myth vs. fact quiz:How did you do? Any surprises?
TASK #3. Read through the “Key Products” section of the website, (use the arrows). What is the significance of the President’s Daily Brief?
TASK #4. Our textbook (SWC, 2013) provides an overview of different types of intelligence (p. 178). What does CIA director, Gina Haspel, have to say about HUMINT and why it is important?.h
TASK #5. Explore the CIA website. What is the “intelligence cycle”? What is the Directorate of Operations? Individuals who work in the Directorate of Operations are mainly engaged in what phase of the intelligence cycle?
BONUS (1 point). Read this blog about security clearance adjudicative guidelines and what kinds of behaviors can result in denial or revoking a security clearance: President Trump recently declared that he was going to revoke the security clearance of former CIA director, John Brennan. Which guideline (if any) was the basis for the revocation?
Question 2
Guantanamo Bay. “Gitmo” is a unique situation dealing with non-US citizens and our legal system.
Discuss the following:
What is Guantanamo Bay?
What are the legal concerns regarding Guantanamo Bay?