Your response to the essay questions should be clear,
Your response to the essay questions should be clear, complete, succinct
and substantive. All conclusions and statements of fact must be supported by specific citation of sources, including page numbers. Proofread and edit your replies for organization, coherence, sentence structure, grammar and spelling. Be sure that you provide sufficient in-text citations to sources and that those and the reference list for each question adhere to the required APA (6th ed.) format. Minimum length is 500 words and maximum length is 750 words.
Essay Questions:
1. Many experts believe that one of our greatest threats from terrorists has become the “Americanization” of terrorist groups as more U.S. citizens are attracted to traditional terrorist groups. Others believe the greater risk is from “home grown” or “lone wolf” terrorists operating independently here in the U.S. Of Americanization of existing terrorist groups or “home grown” / “lone wolf” terrorists operating independently here in the U.S., which do you believe is the more significant threat and why?
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2. Critics in the Congress and elsewhere have taken the FBI and CIA to task for failing to identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a potential terrorist threat in the years leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Should our intelligence apparatus have done better? In specific terms, discuss the principal strengths and weaknesses of U.S. intelligence and what you believe the U.S. can and should do to build a national intelligence structure that will effectively recognize and gain support from policymakers for mitigating present risks to our nation’s security? Indicate in your response what particular deficiencies or problems you believe have or have not been corrected in recent years and what evidence there is to show that the U.S. is now more or less effectively organized to gain and act in accord with sound intelligence in a timely manner.
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