CIA after 911

CIA AFTER 9/11
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Introduction
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a government intelligence agency developed in 1947 by the 33rd president of the United States of America (USA) under the national security act in response to tensions with the USSR after the Second World War (Jenkins 2016). The agency deploys human intelligence to gather intelligence on foreign lands and report to the United States. The agency operated under the Department of Central Intelligence (DCI) and reported directly to the president until 2004, when the office Director of National Intelligence was established. It meant that intelligence gathered by the agency went through the current director in office before reaching the president (Jenkins 2016). Critical changes in operations are evident in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in the agency (Mueller et al., 2018). These were in line with the agency being in the frontline of implementation of the foreign policy.
President Bush was the ruling president when the twin towers attack happened in the USA. The famous attack known as 9/11 happened when nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four jets and purposely crashed them. Two of the jets crashed in the World Trade Centre twin towers in New York, one in the Pentagon in Virginia and another in a field in Pennsylvania, though it was meant to crash in Washington (Jenkins 2016). These attacks resulted in deaths in the thousands in the United States. Before the killings in the mainland, the American embassies had been attacked in Tanzania and Kenya. The United States government had a task force in place, including the CIA but was not keen on following any attacks on aA-Qaeda or the Taliban. It was not until the 9/11 attacks that the government shifted its focus to the enemy. The president immediately recognized the attacks as acts of terror and launched the war against the enemies of the State. This appropriate response by the USA stakeholders to achieve the president’s agenda.
The USA government quickly shifted its agenda towards defending the country against terrorist attacks. It launched the term “war on terror," implied by the president as the government's efforts to ensure that America was safe (Harries 2018). The government wanted to focus on countries that produced and supplied the terrorists with weapons, identifying Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Therefore, the United States troops were deployed to these countries and launched an attack on the ruling Taliban and Al-Qaeda (Harries 2018). The main target was their leader Osama Bin Laden.
The government initiative also called for the restructuring of the defense strategies before the attack, which included restructuring the CIA. The responsibilities and the budgeting would also change since the agency was now at the frontline in the terrorism war. After the attack, the CIA saw an increase in applications for employment to the agency (Harries 2018). The number of daily applications alone in the months following the attack was similar to the number they received in weekly applications before the attack.
Counterterrorism
Before the 9/11 attacks, no other agency was focused ...