The Pentagon

In 1971, the “Pentagon Papers” caused some trouble in the realm of secret information in the court case New York Times vs. United States. The situation was that some journalists obtained confidential papers and the government sued them because of the papers pertinence…

September 11th, 2001 was one of the scariest acts of terrorism the United States has ever encountered. Remembering this day can bring any person into tears. Many people lost their lives while many others lost their loved ones. There are many questions that were never answered and many that never can be. One thing we do know is the events that led up to the Twin Towers collapsing. At Logan International Airport in Boston, it was just a normal day. People were being checked by security and sent…

(Question 1) On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked and crashed into multiple locations. Two of the planes were crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. Another of the planes crashed into the Pentagon. This series of attacks caused over 3,000 deaths nationwide; however, the casualties could have increased drastically if not for the incredibly brave, selfless, and patriotic actions of the 45 passengers aboard flight 93, the fourth hijacked plane. While the…

organized attack carried out by four terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda, an Islamic group, in total. The attackers hijacked airplanes (with passengers in them) and flown them into multiple locations such as, World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York, Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania. The terrorists also had bombs and weapons. An enormous amount of people were killed and injured; about 2,996 deceased and over 6,000 injured. (including those who died of cancer later from the…

Mass hysteria is defined as an epidemic of irrational fear. As this paper is read remember that on September 11, 2001 an Islamic terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and striking the North and South World Center and Pentagon leaving thousands dead. At the same time little is known in the U.S. about the widely practiced and accepted the religion of Islam or Muslims. Mass hysteria of Muslims after 9/11 was based on pure ignorance and the treatment Muslims received was completely…

Have you ever wondered how weird it would be to find weird objects in your yard, something that you don’t know what it is but doesn’t like it’s from Earth. In the summer of 1947, a rancher with the name of Mac Brazel had discovered unidentifiable objects in his pasture in Roswell, New Mexico. It was some sort of metallic stick that were held together with some sort of tape, there were chunks of plastic and reflectors, and very heavy glossy paper like material. Glenn Dennis stated “ there were…

and carried out by an Islamic extremist terrorist group known as al-Qaeda. Four planes were hijacked by 19 different terrorists, with two of the planes flying into both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane flying into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the final plane crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks followed a growing unrest towards the western world and the USA among groups in the nation of Islam that began in the early 20th century. The terrorist…

Drone Strike Program under the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to Pentagon Control. This perspective centers on the debate of the CIA having control over the program – including the intelligence process, vetting process, and implementation, after the President signs off on the strike (for all strikes outside of Pakistan)…

advance, before the suspect was even known? What if just the act of collecting data could result in the identification of completely new suspects? More than a few have pondered this question, just days after the Sept. 11th attacks on New York and the Pentagon, John Yoo, the Justice Department lawyer at the time, wrote an internal memo that argued that the government should use "electronic surveillance techniques and equipment that are more powerful and sophisticated than those available to law…

that contributed to the end of the war by several reasons. The first reason of the antiwar movement was the pressure it caused on Presidents Nixon's and Johnson's foreign policies. Professor Small explains how antiwar protests like the march on the Pentagon in October 1967 and 1969 affected the Johnson administration that led to the production of the Public Relations Campaign that was associated with the public's reaction to the Tet offensive. Likewise, Nixon's proposal for Operation Duck Hook,…