Monday - We had a snow day.
Tuesday - We went over National Security Project presentations.
FBI
1. Basic Facts-Where is it located, how many people work for it, current leader, etc.
- Washington, D.C.
- Director is James Comey (7th Director)
2. Is it part of a bigger organization? If so, what.
- Is apart of The United States Department of Justice
3. History
- Started on July 26,1908
- Founded by special agents (Theodore Roosevelt)
- John Hoover (1st Directer)
- 1935 was when name changed (from Bureau of Investigation to Federal Bureau of Investigation)
4. Powers/Responsibilities
- Protect United States
- From terrorist
- Foreign intelligence operations and espionage
- Against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes
- Combat public corruption
- Protect civil rights
- Combat criminal organizations and enterprises
- Combat significant violent crime
5. Major controversies surrounding organization
- Hitler Controversy
- Hitler escaped the Allied forces
- Hid in Andes mountains in Argentina
- Heavily Guarded
- Many other top Nazi's joined him
- He died at age 95 in Brazil
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Mafia threatens to kill family
- Didn't look into Mafia
- Covered up Mafia crimes
Secret Service
1. Basic Facts-Where is it located, how many people work for it, current leader, etc.
- Located 3 blocks from White House
- 120 field offices in all 50 States
- Dozen offices in foreign countries
- Guys in Uniformed Division protect White House and other buildings
- Special Agents are assigned to field operations
- May qualify for personal protection
- Only one agent has ever died while protecting the president
- The Secret Service has never had a traitor/spy in ranks
- FBI started as part of the Secret Service
2. Is it part of a bigger organization? If so, what.
- Was part of Treasury Department (countered Counterfeiting)
- Then was moved to the Department of Homeland Security
3. History
- President Lincoln authorized creation of Secret Service
- Beginning operation to stop Counterfeiting
- First Chief was William P. Wood
- It became the fourth federal law enforcement agent
- After assassination of President McKinley in 1901 congress requested the SS to be in charge of presidential protection
- First U.S. domestic intelligence and counterintelligence but passed it onto FBI
- 1950 first agent to die while protecting the President
- 1951 Congress permanently authorized Secret Service to protect President, Vice President, President-elect, and immediate family
- 1984 Congress passed Comprehensive Crime Control Act, extending the duties to fraud of credit card and computer fraud
- 2001 USA Patriot Act was put into effect (basically stated their job: prevent, detect, and protect)
- 2003 SS moved to a division of DHS
4. Powers/Responsibilities
- Originally used to stop Counterfeit
- Today protect the president and past presidents and foreign leaders
5. Major controversies surrounding organization
- Joe Biden
- 2009-2010
- Motorcade
- Series of accidents
- Fatal to a bystander
- Animal House
- 2011
- Several agents
- Frat party (basically)
- Supposed to be protecting First Family
- Agents
- Several agents
- Fired
- Accused of being with prostitutes and drinking
- Supposed to be preparing for Obama's visit
Wednesday - We finished the Secret Service presentation and now we are done with the National Security Project. We went over the map.
Thursday - We went over the Central America part of the map. We went over a review of the first non-map test tomorrow.
Friday - We took a group test and did really well.
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