Raheem Mack BLAW 2106 WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden: Providing Vital Information or Compromising National Security? National security has been around since after World War II and sole purpose is to protect and to provide safety and security for all citizens who live in the United States of America. We put into the National Security our trust so they can ensure that we are indeed safe and all our personal documents and information is protected and kept away from individuals who may steal it; but what happens when our personal information is not really personal and the Government has the access to tracking and seeing every email or text we send or spying on us through our video cameras and cell phones? As Americans, we feel like we should
Prior to September 11, 2001 terrorism was regarded as a federal problem and state and local resources were not leveraged in any capacity focusing on terrorism. Since the attacks on America local police agencies around the country have adjusted to the threat of terrorism. Change requires significant analysis, setting goals, allocating resources, and evaluation to be successful. This research will describe proposed changes that the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department can implement to prevent, detect, deter, and recover from a terrorist incident. Change in the criminal justice system is difficult and must be implemented properly by proper analysis, clear objectives, resources, and management support.
Because of the fear of privacy invasion, the different federal agency databases were held on individual agency specific computer systems and were not accessible to anyone, but the owner. Having such a compartmentalized system did not give law enforcement nor intelligence the ability to assist each other in putting together potentially complex terror plots, and often the more sophisticated the terror plot, the more potential for mass killing (White, 2006). Communication is key in all parts of life, and especially important when dealing with such dire consequences. The USA PATRIOT Act, in Title VII, granted the expansion of information sharing systems in order to better facilitate communication between all agencies involved in counterterrorism. This called for the implementation of the Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) as a central database for all law enforcement to use (USA PATRIOT Act, 2001).
The key provisions will be identified along with their meanings to both governmental agencies and the average citizen. Section 203 (b) and (d) information sharing: allows information from criminal probes to be shared with intelligence agencies and other parts of the government. These provisions are at the heart of the effort to break down the barriers that used to separate criminal and intelligence investigations. The United States Justice Department has frequently blamed these barriers for the failure to find and detain September 11th hijackers prior to the attacks. CIA agents had information significantly prior to the attacks that some of the hijackers were in the United States and were suspected terrorists, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims they did not receive the information until August
The issues covered by the strategy include; fighting transnational crimes, countering terrorism, disaster countenance, US-Mexico-boarder initiative, cyberspace policy review and surface transportation security assessment among others. The strategy has maintained achievements of the set objectives and goals steadily. However, the continued achievements were radically threatened by the revelations of Snowden in 2013. On the security of the nationals of the US, the specific strategy is to collect intelligence reports by intercepting personal information to prevent any plans that are evil against the people of America. The intelligence reports are shared amongst other departments so that national security is observed with an inner eye of the government.
He had blamed Iraq to be holding terrorists, he had made America believe that Iraq had been under Saddam Hussein’s clutches and that whatever he had to say was law. President Bush had stated in his speech that, “Saddam Hussein is harboring terrorists and the instruments of terror, the instruments of terror of mass death and destruction, and he cannot be trusted. The risk is simply too great that he will use them or provide them to a terror network”. He had made Americans believe that Hussein was creating weapons and developing a nuclear weapon so that he could “blackmail” the world. President Bush had not trusted Saddam Hussein and he didn’t want rest of America to either.
Thus leaving American’s to become conspirious about the truths of war and ethics in the Federal Government. In my opinion the arguments made against the government’s way they misled the public were true and interesting. The government having not told Tillman’s family the truth up front I believe was a cowardly thing to do. The way the Bush administration portrayed him out to be a hero, in which I believe he was, he shouldn’t have been made out to be more heroic than any one of his fellow soldiers. Just because Tillman was a NFL football player shouldn’t have given him any more starlight than other soldier who also gave up their lives to fight for this country.
In an attempt to prepare for and prevent future acts of terror, the government implemented the USA PATRIOT Act on October 26, 2001. This act lessened the restrictions on law enforcement agencies in regards to their gathering of intelligence within the United States. The act also gives law enforcement officers the right to search a home or business without the owner’s or the occupant’s consent or knowledge. The act of making these clear violations of a person’s privacy was highly controversial but approved in the unremitting post 9/11 pursuit of justice. According to The Washington Post, more than 263 government organizations were either created or reorganized following the attacks.
As with genocide, terrorism does not create any moral dilemma to the society that implements it, yet the one that it is being used against is of the opinion that it is one of the worst things that can be used. The United States condemns all of the Muslim extremist organizations for their use of terrorism, yet the United States used the same tactics during the Revolutionary war. The exploits of the fictitious character Robin Hood used what would be seen as terrorist acts against a portion of the society in which he lived in, yet it is glorified in movies and books. Pirates also used and continue to use terrorism today. In the United States and England, English pirates that terrorized other nations are glorified, while all other pirates are
Bomb any Muslim country – that's the policy? Get a map of the Middle East and just throw a dart at it? Well, apparently George W Bush was listening that day because that's exactly what we did. The United States should not be the world's policeman, or so U.S. President Barack Obama argued in his address to the nation on September 10, in which he explained his position on military intervention in the Syrian civil war. The president is wrong.