Consider how your actions online could impact your safety, or your family’s. Connect: Enjoy the Internet with greater confidence, knowing you’ve taken the right steps to a safeguard yourself and your computer” (Homeland Security – Cyber Security).
The main goal for Stop.Thick.Connect. campaign is to get American people to understand the consequences of using the Internet if used wrongly and the campaign pushes a more secure usage of the Internet (Homeland Security – Cyber Security). Even with the added security from all branches in the Department of Homeland Security, the United States still struggles with terrorist attacks. Between 2001 and 2013 there has been around 60 known plots of terrorist attacks. There have been four instances where …show more content…
The intelligence departments in the United States had learned about the Tsarnaev brothers from Russian government. The Russian government had been watching the family while they were living in Russia because, they feared that they were religious extremists (Sullivan). When the family moved to the United States the Russian Government had warned the U.S. but when U.S. officials tried to gain more knowledge about the threat of the Tsarnaev family the Russian government never responded with and intelligence data. Eileen Sullivan explains in her press report for PBS that, “it was only after the 2013 attack that the U.S. intelligence community learned that the Russians withheld some details that might have led to a more thorough FBI investigation” (Sullivan). It is unclear whether or not the United Stated government could have used this intelligence to prevent the Boston Marathon Bombing. If FBI and Department of Homeland Security would have obtained the need information about these unknown details of Tsarnaev families’ extremist religious activities U.S. government believe that there would still be a small chance in preventing the terror attack (Sullivan). Each attack like the Boston Marathon Bombing that has occurred since 2001 has been a learning experience for how to create a stronger long-term security system for the United States (Levine). Mike Levine …show more content…
While America is stronger and more resilient as a result of efforts over the past decade to build robust national capabilities, the Boston Marathon bombings serve as a reminder that threats from terrorism persist and continue to evolve” (Levine – Boston One Year
The main goal for Stop.Thick.Connect. campaign is to get American people to understand the consequences of using the Internet if used wrongly and the campaign pushes a more secure usage of the Internet (Homeland Security – Cyber Security). Even with the added security from all branches in the Department of Homeland Security, the United States still struggles with terrorist attacks. Between 2001 and 2013 there has been around 60 known plots of terrorist attacks. There have been four instances where …show more content…
The intelligence departments in the United States had learned about the Tsarnaev brothers from Russian government. The Russian government had been watching the family while they were living in Russia because, they feared that they were religious extremists (Sullivan). When the family moved to the United States the Russian Government had warned the U.S. but when U.S. officials tried to gain more knowledge about the threat of the Tsarnaev family the Russian government never responded with and intelligence data. Eileen Sullivan explains in her press report for PBS that, “it was only after the 2013 attack that the U.S. intelligence community learned that the Russians withheld some details that might have led to a more thorough FBI investigation” (Sullivan). It is unclear whether or not the United Stated government could have used this intelligence to prevent the Boston Marathon Bombing. If FBI and Department of Homeland Security would have obtained the need information about these unknown details of Tsarnaev families’ extremist religious activities U.S. government believe that there would still be a small chance in preventing the terror attack (Sullivan). Each attack like the Boston Marathon Bombing that has occurred since 2001 has been a learning experience for how to create a stronger long-term security system for the United States (Levine). Mike Levine …show more content…
While America is stronger and more resilient as a result of efforts over the past decade to build robust national capabilities, the Boston Marathon bombings serve as a reminder that threats from terrorism persist and continue to evolve” (Levine – Boston One Year