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Terrorism is the most popular headline in Media in the present situation. From past few decades’ world’s leading countries have been attacked by terrorist groups. Cyber terrorism is an act of terrorism used by many terrorist groups in order to steal highly classified from opponent countries or disrupt countries operations like nuclear generation, gas supplies etc. Cyber Terrorism is also known to be a way leading countries could show their dominance on other enemy countries. Cyber terrorism…

A large surveillance act enacted by congress in 1979 was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (also known as FISA). It is a federal law that describes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance of foreign intelligence. It was initially meant for the collection of foreign intelligence information between foreign powers. After 9/11 it was amended to include a larger…

be thrown out. Evidence is a key factor in this cases and therefore, it is highly important that both parties follow the statute of limitations so all evidence is heard. Federal crimes usually have a different statute of limitations than a state level. In the case with Jane, Herman and Jed since the crime the committed was a federal crime the statute of limitation for the crime would approximately be 5…

Tragedy in America, homegrown terrorist bombing has had a tremendous impact on the lives of Americans. Do you remember approximately twenty and a half years ago when domestic terrorist attacked America? On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was blown up by domestic terrorist and ex-Army decorated soldier, twenty-seven year old, Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator and ex-Army buddy, Terry Nichols. McVeigh raised in western, New York…

into the border patrol: “If you look at the fiscal 2012 budget of border enforcement and immigration enforcement, it was $18 billion. And that was more than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, and that includes the DEA, FBI, U.S. Marshals, (all) these big agencies. So this has become a priority mission for the U.S. federal government,” states Todd Miller, writer, when interviewed by Jessica Desvarieux of Real News Network. Visiting various trade shows Miller saw Department of…

Terrorism is the use of force and violence against people or property to intimidate the society and the government. The popularity of the word terrorism has grown nonstop ever since the attacks of 9/11, but this was not the first time the world has seen an attack like this. Terrorism has been going on for centuries, but there is now a growing awareness of the problem. It has become one of the most talked about topics in the media. It is hard to go a day without hearing about a new finding,…

on a Department of Justice proposal that was modified by the Congress before it was enacted into law (96). The act was made to give more power to federal enforcement officials to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the attacks on the twin towers, and the pentagon (96). This act modifies a variety of statutes like: intelligence, investigation, controlled substance, crime, privacy, and financial transactions. This act has four key…

USA PATRIOT Act The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by Congress and the president at the time, George W. Bush, on October 26, 2011. It was voted in the Senate 98-1 and the House of Representatives agreed 357-66 to pass the law. The ten letter backronym stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Protecting Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. The Congress was able to create this Act within a short period of time because they “took existing legal principles…

“Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as Director of CIA, David H. Petraeus”. Since the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was not able to keep his personal digital content private, can anyone expect their email to be protected from law enforcement without a warrant? Why should anyone have to face such embarrassment about their personal life when it’s not affecting their career? Whether…

The Department of Homeland Security and the US Patriot Act where created and passed as a direct result of the terrorist attacks orchestrated on September 11, 2001. As a package, both work to preserve life and liberty to citizens of the United States, whether in the homeland or abroad. Therefore, the Department of Homeland Security, while utilizing the US Patriot Act, has partnered with local law enforcement in order to be on the front lines of detecting and preventing homeland terrorism. The…