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Oversight and Accountability
Ethical and Moral Issues in Intelligence
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Foreign Intelligence
Unrelated history questions?
100
The President's Intelligence Oversight Board is a subset of this body.
What is the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
100
According to some, this type of interest is paramount above all others.
What is the national interest.
100
According to Lowenthal, these are the two types of reform
What are ethical and moral reform and improvement.
100
Britain lacks this fundamental constitutional document that the US enjoys.
What is a written bill of rights.
100
In 1492, Columbus sailed this.
What is the ocean blue.
200
According to Lowenthal, these are four things that make oversight of covert action difficult.
What are plausible deniability, officers wanting to "prove themselves", standards of success, and timelines for termination.
200
Name one common ethical issue regarding HUMINT.
What are manipulation and responsibility to asset.
200
According to Lowenthal, "limited authority, extensive responsibility" describes this position
What is the DNI.
200
These are the three major intelligence components of British intelligence.
What are MI5, MI6, and Government Communications Headquarters.
200
This constitutional amendment gave women in the US suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment.
300
These legal officials ensure that each agency is conducting its business lawfully, and without waste or criminal activity.
Who are inspectors general.
300
Blowback refers to this type of covert action phenomenon.
What are negative "unintended consequences".
300
List three things standing in the way of making the DNI more effective
What are the DoD, DCIA, no strong institutional base, lack of presidential support.
300
These are the two Chinese spies mentioned by Lowenthal.
Who are Larry Wu-tai Chin (1985) and Wen Ho Lee (1999).
300
If you killed Inigo Montoya's father, you should be prepared to do this.
What is die.
400
This type of congressional committee holds the real purse strings.
What are appropriations committees.
400
Illegal wiretapping is an ethical issue relating to this aspect of intelligence.
What is collection.
400
"Surge capacity" refers to this.
What is a reserve of analysts that can be called in during times of crisis.
400
This is the main French intelligence organization
What is the Directoire Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE).
400
The Qing dynasty of China collapsed in this year.
What is 1912.
500
Regarding congressional oversight actions, the term "hostages" refers to this.
What is withholding action on certain issues to get what you want.
500
Regarding intelligence, what sorts of ethical obligations might the media have?
What are obligations to withhold certain information.
500
List the three pairs of lessons that 9/11 and Iraq WMD "taught" the US intelligence community
What are warn extravagantly or cautiously?, share broadly and freely or carefully?, connect the dots, but not too many?
500
According to Lowenthal, "Israeli intelligence proceeds from the premise that..."
What is "the state is...under siege."
500
According to Macho Man Randy Savage, you should snap into this.
What is a Slim Jim.