... address the concerns of the public. The benefits of the PATRIOT Act outweigh the drawbacks though. It has helped law enforcement and intelligence agencies disrupt and prevent terrorist plots. Privacy is a small price to pay when it comes to your life. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008 was another way congress took legal action against terrorism. It allows ... intelligence personnel to quickly and effectively monitor terrorist communications and other persons of interest, while at the same time, protecting the rights of ... is a much less controversi...

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... been adjourned indefinitely as Singapore's ambassador - called on to represent the island state - enjoys diplomatic immunity. USA Today, Indonesia Tomorrow? The USA Today daily on Wednesday (20/3/02) quoted unnamed "intelligence sources" as saying that "dozens" of Al-Qaeda members had fled from Afghanistan and were regrouping safely in Indonesia. "Some have come by air, but most have sneaked into Pakistan ... vice president who, I think, would not tolerate, at least at the moment, the presence of American military troops in Indonesia". Sure enough, Vice President Hamzah Haz on Friday in...

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... them that a contemplated attack would fail. Counterterrorism uses several instruments of statecraft including; diplomacy, military force, and intelligence. Diplomacy doesn't directly affect the terrorists but the roots of terrorism, through peacemaking and the shaping of the U.S. It is often aimed at getting foreign governments to provide better protection to U.S. interests. Military force is a way that is rarely used because of ... the cost of causing war. Our use of military forces would be to strike terrorist capabilities prematurely, rather than in response to a specific terrorist in...

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... reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists," said Shawn Turner, spokesman for James Clapper's office, who is the Director of National Intelligence. However, they cannot name a certain group of people who are responsible, although they believe that they were "linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to al-Qaeda" (Hosenball). ... to the public (Hosenball). Matthew Olsen, Director of the US National Counterterrorism Centre, released a statement following the attack, saying, "What we don't have at this point i...

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... balance between protecting Americans against terrorist and protecting Americans" rights. Critics have a problem with the provision in the law in which it gives intelligence and law enforcement agencies more power to investigate. They now have the power to access library and bookstore files without asking or telling the ... they can strike.", upon signing the law. In the eyes of its supporters the act achieves the goal of reforming and updating the way intelligence is gathered, which has been long overdue. Another argument that supporters raise to the opposed is that they are misinterpret...

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... outdated to effectively fight highly mobile, shadowy terrorist networks, and drones represent the future of warfare. For the correct use of these drones, I believe they should be used for foreign intelligence gathering, domestic use in a much more limited capacity, and border control. Since first developing prototype drones during World War I, the U.S has incorporated unmanned aircrafts into its military activity ... vehicle valuable both for surveillance missions and targeted killings (Drones). It is very clear that President Obama prefers using these drones over sending in U.S soldiers...

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... Amendment protections and affects citizens including journalists, lawyers, and businessmen who often work and communicate with foreigners (Hafetz par.11).The second is that "under the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the NSA has been prohibited from recording domestic communications", but almost all collections are from Americans' data (Stray par.6). The other side believes that the NSA's actions ... avoid the terrorists (Dan par.5). Moreover, President Barack Obama said that the NSA's actions are managed by "all three branches of the federal government and reviewed...

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... ). In section 215 of the Patriot Act allows the government to search business records and use them to track down a suspected person. This section of the Patriot Act amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. (Stories and Articles online) The FISA was established so that the FBI could try to make a application for a search warrant to get hold of tangible things ... government needed a better way of getting search warrants for personal records . In the past the FBI had limited ways of getting a warrant , it was necessary to go though the FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveilla...

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... and extortion, making them probably the richest insurgent group in the world." The FARC is responsible for most of the ransom kidnappings in Colombia; the group targets wealthy landowners, foreign tourists, and prominent international and domestic officials. Recent FARC operations include the February 2002 hijacking of a domestic commercial flight and kidnapping of a Colombian senator onboard; the February 2002 ... down, you end up with vigilantes. And that's what happened in Colombia with the emergence of the paramilitary organization United Self-Defense Forces (AUC), designated by Sec...

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... and advanced technology to "crush" terrorists. According to U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, said "top U.S. brass" told him they had intelligence to aid the Nigerian military to "crush" the terrorist group Boko Haram, but were blocked from doing so by the Obama administration because of ... against "same sex marriage" (Westen and Baklinski). According to the life site news, it was said that the united states are withholding intelligence that would "help crush the radical Islamic group Boko Haram" (Sandbox Networks). If the U.S. uses their resources to stop Boko Haram, ... . The advance...

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... was only after the World Trade Centre attack in 1993 that they realized the magnitude of foreign terrorism (Copeland, 2007). The US was using the same old tactics to solve terrorism and little was done to reform security agencies. There was a systemic setback to intelligence gathering and sharing among government agencies. Pentagon could not effectively share information with the CIA ... insufficient allocation of financial resources for terrorism preparedness. Terror threats at home were not anticipated hence sufficient efforts were not put in place. Resources allocated for defence and ...

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... examinations, and police training. The mission of the FBI is to uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal criminal law, to protect the United States from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities, to provide leadership and law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies, and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive ... and divisions at FBI Headquarters provide program direction and support to 56 field offices, approximately 400 satellite offices known as resident agencies, four specialized field installa...

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... of terrorism, which are domestic and international. Domestic terrorism is characterized as groups whose activities are conducted in the United States without foreign influence. Their activities are aimed at the United States government or population. International terrorist are groups of foreign individuals who perform activities against the United States. Terrorist groups are also either non-state supported, state-supported, or state-directed ... . Non-state supported groups receive no funds from a government, while state-supported groups are usually independent; they still receive supp...

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... October 26, 2011. According to an article released by proquest the USA Patriot Act "...substantially changed the host of pre existing statutes and legal procedures governing domestic law enforcement, foreign intelligence, immigration and border control, and individual privacy rights" (Proquest par 1). Theses changes have helped heighten national security and help control terrorism. According to an article released by the Los ... ...

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... small and maneuverable unlike the US, which is large and sluggish. We have so many rules and procedures for fighting wars by the time we are prepared to strike our intelligence will be obsolete. Our organizations are so mechanical with their rules and regulations, it makes us more susceptible to infiltration. The very freedoms we try to protect are what make ... be able to move in and identify the targets, then take out the targets and only the targets. How can we run such a personal attack in countries that are so foreign to us. Like in Vietnam, we can't blend in with the natives, and ...

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... ? These people did not go to trial nor were they convicted of a crime. They also secretly arrested these people. That is cruel. If you think this law applies only to foreign nationals, it doesn't. José Padilla, not a U.S. born citizen, had his civil rights stripped from him just by Ashcroft's saying, "enemy combatant" and "suspected terrorist." To this day, no solid ... any other individual is what happens in fascist societies, not in a free and openly democratic society. Most of these powers do little to increase the ability of law enforcement or intelligence to bring terrorists to jus...

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