The C.I.A. and its Influence on America America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was officially established through the National Security Act of 1947‚ but the concept of intelligence gathering had existed since the days of the Revolutionary War. The CIA is the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)‚ which was created in 1942 to help organize espionage activities during World War II. The mission of the CIA is to collect bits of strategic information in order to protect the United
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Konrad Adenauer Konrad Adenauer was born in Cologne‚ Rhenish Prussia on the 5th of January 1876. He was one of five children of Johann Konrad Adenauer‚ a Cologne civil servant and Helene Adenauer. Konrad grew up in a Roman Catholic family of simple means in which frugality‚ fulfilment of duty and religious dedication was stressed. In 1894 he completed his Abitur and started to study law and political science at the universities of Freiburg‚ Munich and Bonn. Adenauer was also a member of several
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The issue of discrimination towards racial minorities from workers of Law Enforcement is wide spread and has been discussed for last decades. The exonerations of African Americans‚ after the most of the lifetime imprisonment breakdown the news of the American media‚ displaying the crucial mistakes of police officers. The Central Park Jogger Case in 1989 is a depiction of the police officers’ wrongdoing based on racial biases: 5 young African American and Latino men were accused of raping‚ beating
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In order to introduce the tape-recorded statements against Sanders‚ the declarant (Blair) must be unavailable as a witness according to Fed.R.Evid. 804. The statements by Blair fall under an exception to the hearsay rule‚ Fed.R.Evid. 804(b)(3)‚ which provides that when a declarant is unavailable as a witness‚ statements against interest are not excluded by hearsay. When a prosecutor seeks to introduce evidence of a statement that inculpates the accused‚ a number of courts require that statement
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In the circumstances‚ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg would not confess under interrogation; Giles and Martha Corey did not respond to any questioning either. During McCarthyism‚ Julius Rosenberg went under interrogation for sending secret information to the Soviets‚ and no one received a confession or other helping names from him. The same incident occurred in The Crucible when the court attempted
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Torture and Public Policy Kevin Huckabee Stephen F. Austin State University Prepared for: PBA-500 Survey of Public Administration Abstract The subsequent case study‚ prepared by James P. Pfiffner‚ Torture and Public Policy‚ (2010) analyzes the torture and abuse of war prisoners by United States military personnel in Abu Ghraib‚ Iraq‚ and Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba‚ following photographs of the abuse spread around the world in the fall of 2003. Pfiffner points out that the United States Military‚ Secretary
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and was smiling. Seemed like he wanted to start a conversation. The goal of interview is to gather information which typically designed to allow the interviewer to learn about the interviewee in a non-threatening way. On the other side an interrogation is a more aggressive interview‚ in the sense that the same ultimate goal is present as with an interview‚ but the means of reaching that goal take on a slightly different feel. The role of proxemics in meeting these goals are very significant.
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Assess the effectiveness of the criminal trial process as a means of achieving justice Police powers - under the Crimes Act and Law Enforcement (Police Powers and Responsibilities) Act emphasise the difficulties surrounding police discretionary powers - yet this is balanced somewhat by warrants acting as judicial safeguards against police abusing their powers - eg. warrants for a more ’legally enacted’ investigation process‚ phone taps or surveillance - but also warrants to reinforce police search
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police arrived there they found cages filled with malnourished‚ beaten and tethered down kittens‚ dogs and various other animals. The RBPD also found newspaper clippings of several fires that occurred at factories in the town‚ after 18 hours in interrogation Boone finally confessed to arson and torturing animals “I was just rehearsing before I could move onto humans; I needed to experiment and find the most exciting ways to give pain. Who cares anyway‚ they were just stupid pets” Ed said to the SFT
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Boston Marathon Bombings: A Legal Interpretation The two explosions that tore through the Boston Marathon nearly two years ago were like the second starting gun on April 15‚ 2013‚ a race against time to identify and capture the terrorists responsible. Bostonians were relived after an extensive manhunt ended in the apprehension of the Boston Marathon suspects‚ but which raised a host of legal issues including the potential consequence of authorities’ decision not to read Tsarnaev his Miranda rights
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