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Item COMBATING INSIDER THREATS: AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT UNITED STATES INSIDER THREAT POLICIES AND NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS(2014-05-05) Porter, Michael Lawrence; Porter, Michael Lawrence; Ehlers, Robert S; Dailey, Jeffrey D; Phelps, James R; Zamora, Manuel FIn recent years, America has seen a rise in insider threat related incidents. Insider threats are individual with placement and access to critical infrastructures, military units, and the government and their supporting agencies who have turned against and targeted their parent organization aiding a foreign power or international terrorist organization. Understanding this, this paper analyzes how successful the United States Intelligence Community has been in responding to insider threats. For this thesis, literature will serve as a base for establishing doctrinal knowledge, with interviews, with current members of the IC working on insider threat issues, supplementing knowledge gaps about real world application. This paper has found that US policies in the past five years have made great advances in addressing insider threats problems, but there is room for improvement. These improvements will be difficult to adopt because of the impediments to reform, but are necessary to adequately counter insider threats.Item Leading and Learning: Understanding and Reducing Intelligence Leadership FailuresMaldonado, Desirae Elyse; Ehlers, Robert S; Dailey, Jeffrey D; Martinez, Eduardo V; Braden, Heather JThis research study is an analysis of leadership qualities and traits that are required in our Intelligence Community (IC) leaders in order to reduce intelligence failures. This work has involved gathering and studying extensive literature review, to include intelligence-agency unclassified historical documents and published material written by government officials to support the argument that intelligence failures can be reduced by emphasizing the use of education, training, and experience within an intelligence leader. A comparative analysis was used to illustrate the importance of these key elements through the use of historical case studies – the 2012 Benghazi attacks, Pearl Harbor and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Analysis of these case studies led us to conclude the importance and necessity of ensuring our intelligence leaders receive and seek the proper education, training and experience in order to maximize our efforts toward maintaining our national security.