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:gov/myth-vs-fact“>https://www.intelligence.gov/myth-vs-fact How did you do? Any surprises?
TASK #3. Read through the “Key Products” section of the website, gov/how-the-ic-works#key-products-carousel“>https://www.intelligence.gov/how-the-ic-works#key-products-carousel (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?.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-gina-haspel-china-is-working-to-diminish-us-influence/.
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: https://news.clearancejobs.com/2018/05/03/issues-r…
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?
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