In the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attacks on the US Embassy in Cairo, the US Intelligence authorities declared that a group of protestors spontaneously reacted against a short film posted on YouTube that degraded the Prophet Mohammad. ... After reviewing the attack for two weeks, the US Intelligence Agency is concluding that they now believe the September 11 attack on US diplomatic facilities was not random (Hosenball). "We revised our initial assessment to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists," said S...

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Critics have a problem with the provision in the law in which it gives intelligence and law enforcement agencies more power to investigate. ... 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. ... It does not expand the amount of people or groups of people whom the government can target and obtain information, the targets must be foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. ... The government must have a probable cause, that the person is engaged in or preparing to engage in "international terror...

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Intelligence officials have reason to believe that Syrian government, headed by President Bashar al'Assad, has a large amount of chemical weapons, but are still unsure as to whether they possess biological weapons (Cave). Syrian Deputy Prime Minister, Jamil Qadri, and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey V. ... The Kremlin has long opposed foreign intervention. Russia, Syria's closest foreign ally, plans to help the Syrian government and its rebels reach a peaceful agreement (Cave). ... "The growing use of air power, particularly fixed-wing aircraft, raises the possibility of forei...

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Giving almost unlimited anti-privacy powers to domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies, PATRIOT virtually eliminates checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that those powers were not abused. ... Section 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be terrorist intelligence activities for a foreign power. ...

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Giving almost unlimited anti-privacy powers to domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies, PATRIOT virtually eliminates checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that those powers were not abused. ... Section 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be terrorist intelligence activities for a foreign power. ...

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We all want the same things in life. We want freedom; we want the chance for prosperity; we want to be the best we can be; we want as few people suffering as possible, economically; we want healthy children; we want to have crime-free streets; all these things, they're pretty common. The argument is...

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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). ...

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Political Thought of Andrew Jackson: Jacksonian Democracy In the decades surrounding the presidency of Andrew Jackson democracy began to expand. States rewrote constitutions and extended the franchise to all free white males. European visitors such as Alexis de Tocqueville noticed the spirit of equality that pervaded the United States, unlike anything known in the Old World. (Not all Europeans, nor Americans, for that matter, were sure that was a good idea terms like "mobocracy" and "anarchy" were thrown around from time to time.) By the late 1830s, the United States had become a full democra...

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