Assignment:
Essay assignment of 2 questions, 2 to 3 pages each, APA format to test knowledge and assimilation of the course objectives. The exclusive use of required texts and readings from this course is mandatory. With Quotations and references.
1) Explain the history of terrorism in the US. Select various laws and intelligence reform in the US that has been working and those laws and areas that have failed. How can we improve in the fight vs. terror?
2) Explain what US-IC, HSINT and CBRNE are in depth. How do these affect privacy laws in the US? Does the Patriot Act play a role and how can we conduct intelligence gathering without impacting an individual's civil liberties?
Readings:
1. An Unrealized Nexus? WMD-related Trafficking, Terrorism, and Organized Crime in the Former Soviet Union
By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley
2. Assessing the risk of chemical and biological weapons proliferation to terrorists
By Jean Pascal Zanders
3. The Next Steps in Reshaping Intelligence
By Gregory F. Treverton
4. Understanding Terrorism in America From the Klan to al Qaeda
By Christopher Hewitt
5. Using the military at home: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
By Richard H. Kohn