Counter-terrorism

especially after 9/11 when America was under attack by terrorist and left millions of Americans afraid to go to the airport. The American government knew that it had to protect its citizens so it created the patriot act, which protected against terrorism and domestic and foreign affairs. Homeland security has the important task to watch out for citizens who want to behave in criminal behavior against the government or who wants to overthrow the government. Groups such as Isis and the Muslim…

Terrorism is a popular and controversial topic in America. Therefore, we as a country have spent millions of dollars on finding ways to protect ourselves and creating programs to protect us against future terrorism. A lot of this has to do with calming the hysteria of the American people. Policing Terrorism is a newer idea were as most articles starting popping up around 2005 and later. 9/11 required us to open our eyes and start to brainstorm new ideas. People began to realize these terrorist…

disseminate intelligence from ongoing terrorism operations. No American ground assets, no ability to monitor terrorist plots – potentially those as far as…

Imagine pure pandemonium, as people are running around frantically trying to escape a moving subway train. People are dropping all around and there is no place to go. What they once thought to be just another daily commute, turned out to be a day that would change their lives forever. No one had anticipated Sarin gas being on those trains. Who had committed such a despicable act? It would not be long before police officials would figure out who. While Aum Shinrikyo also attempted attacks…

After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the United States and the international community made a number of drastic improvements to their counter-terrorism strategies. These improvements have not only severely disrupted the lines of communication between terrorist cells and their leaders, they also have severely degraded their ability to travel across international boundaries. As a result, terrorist organizations have been forced to adopt new tactics. One of the latest emerging…

would feel that it is for good reasons . Most terrorism can’t be justified be cause most terrorist attacks aren 't for good reasons most terrorist attacks are for the same reason to kill as many people as possible and we turn the tables and go back and go blow their countries up the civilians over there feel like we 're doing it for bad reason and still the objective is to kill as many terrorist over there in that country and still people feel that terrorism can be justified . Most people in…

ACLU investigators have discovered from public reports that less than 1% of these types of searches happen for terrorism investigations. They have been used instead for immigration and drug cases and sometimes fraud cases (Johnson, 2011). The act has also been criticized for its broad definition of “domestic terrorism” and for using the provisions to prosecute crimes other than terrorism (“What Wrong With”, 2003). According to the act, individuals who commit misdemeanors could be labeled as…

however is on the question of terrorism. Whereas some are convinced that torture tactics should be used on a terrorist to gain valuable information, others maintain that false information can be received. In my own view, torture interrogation tactics should be considered when dealing with a terrorist threat because a terrorist performs acts of violence to achieve a specific political aim. A terrorist will put innocent lives in danger to achieve his political aim. Terrorism is not new and even…

Morris in FBI Will Help Local Police Unlock iPhones is that now that the FBI has the ability to crack into the data stored on iPhones, the agency will utilize this capability in many situations, including local law enforcement cases and federal counter-terrorism cases. More specifically, Morris argues that there will be an increased number of iPhones that are broken into in order to investigate crimes. He writes, “The agency has since unlocked other phones, and, CBS reports, now ‘owns the…

acquiring nuclear material expertise from the former Soviet Union.” (http://www.rand.org/about/people/p/parachini_john_v.html) John Parachini risk management perspective is inclusive of concluding that there is difficulty in gauging the threat of terrorism. He explains that what is missing from the equation is a discussion concerning how to develop a model that will be broad enough to assess threats, both internationally and domestically. The lack of this ability leads to random conclusions,…