On September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked the citizens of the United States of America. Approximately forty-five days later on October 26, 2001, the Bush administration responded by passing the USA PATRIOT Act, which is short for "United and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism." The policy's scope was not just foreign; it was also domestic. The following year, the Bush administration added an entirely new cabinet established as the "United States Department of Homeland Security." This policy went effective on November 25, 2002. Both USA PATRIOT Act and the Homeland security act were direct responses to the atrocities that happened that dreadful day on September 11, 2001. .
In policy analysis it's wise to understand the reason why a policy is constructed. When dissecting a policies purpose it's prudent to understand the actors in a policy; and who's benefiting fiscally or not from a newly formed policy. In the USA PATRIOT Act, the military industrial complex benefits fiscally from the act, for providing the U.S. government with the tools to fight terrorism. However we tend to overlook an important facet of terrorists tactics. The underlying problem is that the terrorist look and act like ordinary citizens; they blend into society. For this reason the United States Government used this facet of terrorist tact to instilled policies that commit atrocities against the civil liberties and privacy on American citizens and foreigners. .
The Atrocities of Illicit Policy: Revoked Liberties .
Opening in 2014, in the state of Utah, sits a 140,000 sq meter NSA data center that serves dual purposes as a supercomputer and a data center. Running cohesively with project echelon this new data center claims to be faster, better, and rumored to have capabilities near artificial intelligence that rivals the problem solving capabilities of Watson, a supercomputer created by IBM that competed on Jeopardy.