The Bureau

The Al Qaeda Effect In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, the Middle Eastern terrorist group known as Al Qaeda has gained tremendous power throughout many Middle Eastern countries through subsidiaries of their group such as ISIS, Al Shabab, AQIM, and Jabhat al-Nusra. Having acquired this power has allowed them to continue their reign of terror. 1. According to counterterrorism officials, which extremist group poses the greatest threat to Western…

The debate over security vs. liberty has been an issue in the United States since the nation was first born from the rubble leftover from the American War of Independence from the British Empire. Founded in 1908, the mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats as well as uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States. The NSA was founded by order of then President Harry S. Truman in 1952 with the purpose of…

The events of September 11, 2001 will never be forgotten by the American people. One of the largest changes made in the United States after 9/11 was the introduction of the USA Patriot Act on October 26, 2001. The act allows US government agencies to easily gain access to the private records of people within the United States. The records include phone records, banking statements, and credit reports. Without any limits on the power of government agencies, the possibility of infringing on the…

to 400 citizens, thousands injured, and millions in distressed…the atmosphere in Israel(is) a mix of defiance and despair” (The Economist, 2002). The September 11, 2001, attack on the twin towers was an absolute shock to the US economy, the impact of this event has yet to be fully measured. The act of terrorism could influence significant changes in the consumption and production pattern. For example, the attack on Israel Israelis now prefer malls instead of markets and walk in the streets…

Since 9/11, the United States has created measures to protect the country from what was not prevented on that historical day. These measures consist of “mass arrests, secret and indefinite detentions, prolonged detention of ‘material witnesses,’ closed hearings and use of secret evidence, government eavesdropping on attorney-client conversations, FBI home and work visits, wiretapping, seizures of property, removals of aliens with technical visa violations, and mandatory special registration…

Post 9/11 Privacy Prior the terrorist events that took place on September 11 (9/11), privacy was of minimal concern to most people. Of course they were concerned about identity theft and credit scores, but that paled in comparison to the fear that was generated by events on 9/11, which opened the gateway for new levels of privacy encroachments and examination that many are not comfortable with in their day-to-day lives. Ultimately, the argument comes down to whether people are for or against…

Although the Constitution guarantees many rights, the Constitution does not guarantee the right to individual privacy. Because the US is a technologically enhanced country, government officials and other organizations can “tap on” their peoples’ personal lives and conversations through telephone calls, emails, and many other modes of communication. While many people would disagree that wiretapping protects individual lives, wiretapping should be permitted because the average individual’s phone…

Apple announced it would fight the United States Government on the court order requiring them to develop a custom version of its iOS operating system. The FBI wants to hack into an iPhone that belonged to suspected terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California in December 2015. In February, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of California ordered Apple to disable the iPhone's auto erase function to assist the FBI to gain access to the suspects' phone,…

Following the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, many issues were identified within the Intelligence Community (IC), namely that information had not been shared between agencies or with local law enforcement apparatuses in order to piece together the looming threat. In order to fill this significant gap in security and to strengthen U.S. counterterrorism efforts, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) created numerous organizations to compensate for…

White-collar crime refers to a nonviolent crime that is financially motivated and committed by any business or government official to obtain profits for personal advantage. (Buell, 2014). White-collar crimes ranges from fraud, Ponzi schemes, forgery and insider trading, a substantial amount of all white collar crimes offender’s live by privilege and power (Evertsson, 2013). Although, numerous amounts of white-collar crimes and offenders are caught by law enforcement, a substantial amount of…