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SATs and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Assignment: At what points in 1962 could IC analysts have employed SATs to strengthen their understanding of Soviet activities in Cuba and to provide greater warning to policymakers about the potential course of events? Which SATs should they have used?
The U.S. Intelligence Community published four intelligence estimates prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, all of which underestimated the Soviets’ intentions to install strategic weapons in Cuba.
January 17, 1962, The Threat to U.S. Security Interests in the Caribbean Area (SNIE 80-62): Establishment of Soviet bases on Cuba is “unlikely for some time to come.”
March 21, 1962, The Situation and Prospects in Cuba (NIE 85-62): The USSR would “almost certainly never intend to hazard its own safety for the sake of Cuba.”
August 1, 1962, The Situation and Prospects in Cuba (NIE 85-2-62): It is “unlikely” that the Soviet Bloc will station “Bloc combat units of any description” in Cuba, at least over the next year.
September 19, 1962, The Military Buildup in Cuba (SNIE 85-3-62): Despite evidence of significant Soviet buildup, “Soviet policy remains fundamentally unaltered.” (A portion of this SNIE is available by clicking here
On October 15, 1962—a mere three weeks after the September SNIE was published—photos from a U2 spy plane revealed that the Soviets had installed intermediate-range missiles in Cuba. Long-range missiles were discovered two days later.
David T. Moore, “Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis”Links to an external site.. Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Defense Intelligence College. Washington D.C. 2007, pp. 20-47.
Jonathan Renshon, “Mirroring Risk: The Cuban Missile Estimation”.Links to an external site. Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2009), pp. 315-338.
Sherman Kent, “Cuban Missile Crisis: A Crucial Estimate RelivedLinks to an external site.” first published as a SECRET paper in Studies in Intelligence (1964). Declassified and republished in 1992 by Central Intelligence Agency, pp. 111-119.

BBC Panorama/ London Under Attack

Background: A May 2004 episode of the BBC’s Panorama program considered a fictitious scenario in which terrorists have launched multiple attacks against London’s subway system and other targets in the city. The program featured officials from London’s security services, intelligence agencies, and community of first responders reacting to the attacks as they happened. By exposing security vulnerabilities as well as shortcomings in the Brits’ ability to respond to multiple attacks, the program demonstrates how applying critical thinking to intelligence/law enforcement problems can yield actionable insights for customers (in this case, for London’s emergency management services officers and municipal leadership).

The exercise in the Panorama program is not intended to be a classic structured analytic technique (SAT) applied to an intelligence question during the research process. However, elements of diagnostic, challenge, and imaginative SATs emerge throughout the hour-long exercise, showing how these and other critical thinking tools can be applied to fluid situations that are characterized by a high degree of uncertainty.
The assignmenet:
In no more than two pages, describe the ways in which the Panorama participants applied critical thinking as they responded to the attacks. Briefly identify any instances in which the participants projected scenarios, questioned the credibility of data, challenged assumptions, identified key unknowns, suggested hypotheses, referenced lesson learned from previous attacks, or demonstrated other elements of SATs that we have studied. In your opinion, what SAT (or SATs) does the exercise in the Panorama program most closely resemble?

Discussion Thread First Responder Considerations to Preparing for and Preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction Events

I DONT HAVE THE TEXTBOOK SO PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU BIDD!!!!!!!.. Based on the Read items thus far, pick a WMD/CBRNE event or threat and discuss how this specific weapon, agent, etc. would need to be prepared for and responded to from a first responder leader perspective. Be sure to discuss action planning and safeguards needed such as response strategies and personnel protective equipment issues.
Finally, please share your thoughts about the course. Did this course cause you to change your mind or opinion about anything related to homeland security? What was it? Why or why not— maybe something was reinforced— if so, explain. What was the most important thing you learned in this course and why?
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Law 101 – 8399

Choose one of the following cases, then analyze the cases in the Questions and Problems.
Case A: Chapter 15 (8 and 9) and Chapter 16 (7) in Dynamic Business Law
Case B: Chapter 15 (6 and 7) and Chapter 16 (9) in Dynamic Business Law
For each assigned case, write an analysis of the issue based on the following criteria:
Identify the parties involved in the case dispute (who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant).
Identify the facts associated with the case and fact patterns.
Develop the appropriate legal issue(s) in question (i.e., the specific legal issue between the two parties). Provide a judgment on who should win the case – be clear.
Support your decision with an appropriate rule of law.
Be prepared to defend your decision and to objectively evaluate the other points of view.
Grading Criteria

Law – 0491

Law 31599

My order:
1- No theft, no match please.
2-You can find the instructions inside the document
3- Please write a paper in the document
4- Write a report on whatever you use to research and what you write in a different document because we will discuss it separately in class
Write at least2 references using the APA style.
NB:
Please use simple language
Put the in-text quote in each.
Additions within the document.
Steps to conduct the activity in the sixth interactive week Choose one of the following cases, then analyze the cases into questions and problems. Case A: Chapter 15 (8 and 9) and Chapter 16 (7) in Dynamic Business Law Case B: Chapter 15 (6 and 7) and Chapter 16 (9) in Dynamic Business Law For each case assigned, write a case analysis based on these criteria Next: Determining the parties involved in the case dispute (who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant). Identify the facts associated with the case and the patterns of facts. Develop the appropriate legal case(s) involved (ie, the specific legal issue between the parties). Make a judgment about who should win the case – be clear. Support your decision with the appropriate rule of law. Be prepared to defend your decision and to evaluate other points of view objectively. Classification criteria

intro to law week 8

The purpose of this project is to use Westlaw to research and apply statutory law and interpretive case law relevant to facts.
Course Outcomes Met by Project 2:
Using computer based legal research tools, retrieve, navigate, and update primary legal authority.
Cite to and explain the relevance of primary authority to a given legal topic or issue.
Background: Chang is working with a LCA consulting client, Attorney Mark Adams, a senior partner in a Baltimore, Maryland law firm. Adams has consulted Chang about a child visitation case. Chang has asked you to assist in the consultation by researching relevant statutory and case law and presenting your findings in a Research Summary Report.
Facts:
Clementine Connor, the Client, reports that her child’s father has physically abused both her and their 7-year old child. The Client provided substantial, credible corroborating evidence of this abuse, including records of the child’s father’s criminal convictions for domestic abuse in Maryland. The child’s father, however, insists that the criminal trial was a fraud and that he was framed. The father has refused to complete the parenting skills and anger-management courses ordered by the judge in the criminal case.
The father now is seeking unsupervised, overnight visitation with the child. The Client fears for her child’s and her own safety if the father the is allowed to have the visitation he is seeking. She wants advice regarding whether the father is likely to succeed in obtaining visitation.
Instructions:
Confine your research to the Family Law Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland. Focus on this Research Question:
Whether a Maryland court may reject a request for visitation when the parent seeking visitation has a documented history of child abuse and refuses to complete court-ordered parenting and anger-management classes?
Present your research in a Research Summary Report. Attorney Adams is a busy practitioner, so Chang wants explanations that are thorough, but concise. Each explanation should be written in complete sentences that use your own words. Scroll down for the complete Report format.
Part A
1. Using Westlaw, locate a directly relevant statutory provision in the Family Law Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland that addresses the research question. Cite the statutory provision in correct, complete Bluebook format.
2. Explain why the statutory provision is directly relevant to the Research Question.
Part B
Go to the Notes of Decisions tab/column for the statute you identified in Part A. From the list of annotated cases that appear there, select one reported Maryland state court opinion that is relevant to the Research Question.
3. Explain why the selected opinion is relevant to the Research Question.
4. Provide a short quotation (maximum 50 words) from the opinion that supports your response to Question 3. Use quotation marks to show that the text is not your own original work. After the quotation, provide a pinpoint citation to the regional reporter using Bluebook format.
5. Is the selected opinion “on all fours” with the Client’s case? In your answer, remember to compare and contrast the legally significant facts and the controlling law.
6. Is the selected opinion still “good law”? State your conclusion and explain how you made this determination.
Part C
7. Using A > B > C > D format, provide a detailed description of your entire research process. Start your description on the Westlaw launch page and include all steps taken to locate the cited statute (from Part A) and court opinion (from Part B). A reader unfamiliar with Westlaw and legal research should be able to recreate your entire search process by following the steps of your A > B > C > D description.

Research Summary Report Format
Label and number all parts and responses. Use complete sentences and paragraph format where instructed to do so.
Research Summary Report
To: Alicia Chang, Esq.
From: (Your Name), Paralegal
Date:
Re: Connor Child Visitation Case
Part A
1.
2.
Part B
3.
4.
5.
6.
Part C
7.
_________
Review the Project
Thoroughly read the presentation to ensure all required elements are present.
Review the grading rubric to ensure that you earn the most points possible for this assignment.
Use Bluebook format for citations.
Proofread for spelling and grammatical issues. Use the spell and grammar check in Word.
Answers that require explanation should be thorough, but concise and clear. On Questions 2, 3, 5, and 6, aim for responses that are between three and eight sentences, and no more than 200 words long. Use complete sentences and write in your own words.

You are a Victim’s Advocate for persons who have been sexually assaulted. You have been effective in recent past cases

You are a Victim’s Advocate for persons who have been sexually assaulted. You have been effective in recent past cases where police were unable to obtain significant information from victims of sexual assault. When you provided advocacy service to these victims, you discovered that police interviews were done in a manner that indicated police were in charge, that the victim needed to cooperate if he or she were to be believed, and wanted anything done about the reported crime.

The Chief of Major Crimes wants you to explain why police interviews of victims are not successful and what the major crimes detectives can do to increase their effectiveness in interviewing them.

Focus your discussion on the following:

Provide an explanation of why it is important to establish and build a rapport with victims before beginning the interview.

Prepare a list of the most important factors that police officers should include in their victim interview strategy for those who are reporting they have been sexually assaulted.

Explain why it is important to modify the interview based on the factors that you listed.

Ethics and Health Law

Behemoth Hospital, owned by the local MD Group is a 300-bed non-profit community hospital located in a mid-sized Midwestern city. –
Behemoth has several managed care contracts. It also was aprofitable home health care agency and a fifteen been nursingfacility located in a rural area 80 miles away. Behemoth has someproblems.
Half of Behemoth’s nursing staff in the nursing facility has walked off the job. One of its ten patients has a rare infectious disease with no known cure.
Thos nurses walking o t claim that the facility administrationknowingly or accidentally failed to provide adequate health and safety protections, thereby endangering other patients, the nursesand their friends and families. They contend that due to actual orpotentially unsafe conditions, they have been constructively discharged. Prior to walking off the job, the nurses had written to the Occupation, Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), with acopy to Behemoth, complaining about unsafe working conditions. Theyreceived a response from neither.
All were long-time employees with excellent records and fully dedicated to patient care.
What Result?

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