Final Post 9/11 Intelligence Reform Impact and the Way Ahead Daniel Ratner INTL 444 Professor Mead October 8‚ 2012 Introduction After 9/11‚ an event so shocking‚ and humiliating to both the American people‚ and the U.S. Government‚ vast reforms were identified to ensure that an attack of this magnitude never happened again. From the ashes of this despicable act came two major pieces of Intelligence reform. These documents were the 9/11 Commission Report and The Intelligence
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Sound familiar? This is how rigorous airport security is present day. The 9-11 attacks caused such a huge shock to America’s security that they had to rethink everything; they had to change the whole system that the American people believed would keep the safe. The question is though‚ how did they change it? Were the changes for the better? And how safe is are the American people now after the changes have been made? Since 9-11 America’s securities throughout all airports have been drastically changed
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DC ‚ and in rural Pennsylvania causing the death of over three thousand innocent civilians and injuring over six thousand. Osama Bin Laden stated that the attack was in response to America’s support of Israel and the U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. 9/11 resulted in an almost immediate and continuous increase in security procedures both in the United States and worldwide wherever a large gathering of people occurred. In addition‚
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An Act of Weakness The date of September 11‚ 2001‚ is one of the most traumatic events in United States history. In New York City‚ 19 extremists of the Islamic al-Qaeda group committed an act of terrorism that we can never recover from. They flew planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center‚ one into the Pentagon‚ and one crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. These actions have cost a countless number of lives‚ 2‚996 lives to be exact. The profoundly weak terrorists only had one intention
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Travis Nichols U.S. History 1896 – Present Aaron Weinstein 9-11 & the Effects on America The events that took place on September 11th 2001 changed the way things worked in America. On that day Islamic extremist high jacked four U.S. airplanes with the intent of crashing them into the twin towers‚ the Pentagon and the White House. Two of the planes did indeed crash into the twin towers in New York City and another was used to hit the pentagon. The passengers on the last plane however‚ fought
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9/11 Conspiracy Theories are Theories that believe that 9/11 was not performed the way the media made it look. First you might need to know the basics. The United States had been having issues with terrorists for a long time. This terrorist group was know as al-Qaeda and were a lot like ISIS. 9/11 is thought to be the time terrorists hijack planes and crash them into 3 different building. The twin towers and the pentagon‚ also another was on its way to the white house when passengers took over and
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change. This report is also intended to educate employees on the seriousness of sexual harassment and give different ideas as to how to search passengers. Fire. Destruction. Horror. These are a few of the understated words that describe the tragedy of 9/11. On September 11th‚ 2001‚ terrorists hijacked planes‚ then crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon‚ causing thousands of innocent lives to come to an unexpected end. “Haunting
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When I was 2 years old‚ my mother and I were waiting for my father to get off a long-delayed flight. This was before 9/11 when entering the terminal without a ticket was permitted. An irate passenger waiting for the next flight to depart demanded that the crew let him board the plane immediately‚ apparently undeterred by the lack of an aircraft on the other side of the plate glass window. He filled the area with tension as he stomped around the seating area‚ ranting vociferously into a cell phone
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The air was filled with smoke; slowly I made my way through the enormous building. Not knowing where to go. But feeling the building rumble and shake in my fear of claustrophobia. I remember hearing “GET DOWN! RUN!” That was the dreadful day of 9/11 September 9th 2001 “I have to go to work” As I told Michael (my son). Our apartment wasn’t much; we still had a rent problem. But since I’ve got accepted to my new job at the World Trade Center‚ I don’t think we’ll be having too many problems
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The Impact on Aviation Security and Commercial Air Travel Post 9/11 The events of September 11‚ 2001 forever changed air travel security measures. The level of security and the pre-screening for commercial flights was overwhelmingly lacking and was quite frankly‚ a disaster waiting to happen. The lessons the aviation industry learned because of the 9/11 attacks‚ propelled the nation into raising the standards of security at all airports in the United States‚ which was long overdue. As a
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