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    to major websites in order to gain access to user information and private messages. They proposed a new law that would compel companies to give the FBI easy access. This would amend a 1994 law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) which currently only applies to phone companies, not Internet

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    counterterrorist intelligence analysis, and also create the Department of Homeland Security (Countering Terrorism, pg. 17-18, 2007). More importantly, in 2004, Congress implemented the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, as stated before (Countering Terrorism, pg. 18, 2007). The act split the job of the Director of Central Intelligence Agency into two jobs which created a new position known as the Director of Central Intelligence, which would be later called the Director of National Intelligence

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    Analysis: Bleeding Wolf

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    A cynical forensic computer programmer reluntantly gets entangled in a mission to stop a terrorist group from attacking the finacial system. BRIEF SYNOPSIS A terrorist group known a Bleeding Wolf causes a system crash at Reagan Internationsl Airport. A commuter plane crashes with a jet. JONATHAN KIRBY (28) specializes in the forensic investigative methods of financial inter-connectivity. By using the inter-connectivity of the system, ultimately one can follow the data stream from the target back

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    What is domestic surveillance? Domestic surveillance is a broad term for the President’s Surveillance Program, which is a reconnaissance program. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush authorized a series of secret intelligence investigations, dubbed the PSP (President’s Surveillance Program). The PSP, run by the NSA, monitored the communications of about 1,000 people on U.S. territory with suspected links or ties to foreign terrorist organizations. The PSP began to expand

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    Civil Liberties Today, is an article from The New York Times and is dedicated to displaying the numerous security measures that were implemented after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The article brings up the alarm many Americans today have regarding their own personal privacy. It also references the numerous threats the new laws have put on the basic civil liberties of all people. The text goes in depth on these laws and reminds us that they were implemented for one purpose only: to lower the

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    2001, brought worldwide attention as to how defenseless national security is, and some plan had to be an implementation as a preventative from future destruction. This terrible event was identified to be an act of terrorists. In 2002, President George W. Bush did sign the Homeland Security Act. The Homeland Security Bill includes key documents that indicate how the Homeland

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    PA Wiretapping Act

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    PA Wiretapping Act The PA Wiretapping Act attempts to protect the privacy of communication with others. It prohibits purposeful interception, disclosure or use of content that is through wire, oral or electronic communication. The systems that are susceptible to wiretapping treats include infrastructure, phone, computers, iPad, smart phone, and tape records. The act is violated when information is intercepted without permission. The communication can be oral, written or an image. The stakeholders

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    Company, they make a plan. A dead man cannot be indicted and also The Company want to pay back Aldo Burrows, so they fake Terrance death and frame Lincoln Burrow, son of Aldo, into doing the bloody act. Consequently, Lincoln is charged with assassination of the vice president's brother, which is considered an act of treason, in other words, he is sentenced to

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    The ability to thwart a terrorist attack by infiltrating their network is the greatest means of saving lives, especially within our modern era, but there are certain limitations when viewing this, such as whether or not the intelligence agency can view anyone and whether or not the ability to choose who will be watched and wire tapped is correct. These are two very important questions that will determine the limitations between these three major government areas which the United States government

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    9/11 Persuasive Speech

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    September 11, 2001 was a day America will never forget. It was as if America got hit in the head unexpectedly. Many say that it could have been stopped if we would have just done one thing. Listen in or record phone messages and calls. It is rumored that certain people were calling back and forth and talking about the attack, those who were American citizens. Since then, phone calls and text messages and emails have been recorded or listened in on without the knowing of the American citizen. Some

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