Read the Bill and thanks for pointing this out. Dont believe this was your tent however, what you just pointed out were two separate sections that can charge persons of interest i.e be charged under sec 1021 or sec 1022....So what this means is American citizens can not be charged under Sec 1022 but they can be charged under Sec 1021 BECAUSE 1021 says nothing at all about U.S. citizens as 1022 does. It is Sec 1021 which actually protects the U.S. gov to capture and detain a U.S. citizen but also target kill someone who is a citizen working with Al Qaeda as they had with Al Alwaki. I read this bill in its entirety and the killing of Al Awalki is exactly one of the reasons why Sec 1021 specifically was kept from mentioning anything about U.S. citizens. Thank you ma'am.
ObamaYo, What would you call those Americans affiliated with the Symbionese Liberation Army, the FALN, McVeigh, Unibomber, Padilla, etc??? Hippies? No they were terrorists...The author rightly made a valid point. Never did he say we were a Terrorist State. Nor could I see any attempt to justify our relations with other nations...Your reading comprehension is about as good as a 2 year old.
Holger, Breitbart has always been a place for people to read up and debate. Debate is a healthy dialog among persons respectfully passing along ideas. What you just stated was rhetoric. To label a writer simply because he pointed out an issue which a Congressman fought for his people and a Demo dominated Senate blocked everything is childish. Because he wrote truth, you simply state that the guy is an idiot? Such statements are exactly why the Dem party is becoming a ruined party. You have no insight towards what is really going on so you just name call. Old and unworthy trick in the book that does no good.
Actually brother, left wing terrorism, while it may not be as austere to human life has actually costed the United States more economically than Islamic and Right wing terror combined due to the target of infrastructure. Yes, I understand that the World Trade Center was a major disaster to human life and economically however, if you took all of the left wing acts of terror and calculated the cost you would find that they are actually more threatening to our nation economically (not necessarily to human life) than the Islamists. Their are several reports about this that can be found out of U. of Maryland's START. Also, the author never used the word Islam or Islamic in this rather used radial extremists and I believe after observing his background some more he did this due to his knowledge of terrorism as a whole and not just Islamic terrorism. But, after researching some more about his take on Islam, I was able to find this...He isnt worried about writing some truth about the horrors founed within the religion.
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Again, maybe I am wrong here but you sound like your either a fed or a military service member who has little insight in domestic Law Enforcement counterterrorism operations. And trust me when I say this, nothing written in here is meant to belittle you or start some stupid online verbal fight. It is meant to show that some folks often times speak only with what they know and don’t know the whole picture or at least a good majority of the picture. And I personally believe that is exactly what you did here whether I am right or wrong.
6. “There's no way to keep a full stable of skilled CT or AT analysts in every state and city.” Again, this is the most subjective and biased statement pertaining state level intelligence operation centers and or fusion centers. You have obviously never walked into the New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center or New York City’s intelligence center. Speaking of New York, I guarantee if you ever had the honor and privilege to accompany NYPD for one week in their AT/CT operations, you would recant your statements.
5. State level fusion centers, while greatly funded by the fed, are owned and operated by the individual state. Yes, some feds operate in them as well however, they more or less serve as coordinating agencies. State level fusion centers take tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence and create their own products for “Law Enforcement Sensitive” reporting that is often used in Federal Counterterrorism reports.
4. “Despite the very valuable 'boots on the ground' information local agencies can provide, they're never going to be as well oriented towards the full scope of the threat as a national level LE actor.” Really? How many feds are actually walking the streets speaking with local communities? Now, compare and contrast that with how many LE are doing such task. Claiming that LE are never going to be as well oriented towards the full scope of the national threat is ridiculous. In fact, if you ever worked law enforcement on a state and or local level, which I am sure you never did by your perceptions written, you would find that local LE have more insight to domestic criminal activities than the feds. In fact, the local LE’s conduct more counter organized criminal operations than the feds and often ARE the ones who obtain initial “Tips and Leads.” P.S. with this said, have you ever looked into the LEEP program? If not, I suggest you do considering NYPD, Philly, Chicago, Dallas, LA, and others have sent officers abroad to partake in such mission.
2. You stated “actual terrorism, which is almost always rooted in transnational Sunni extremism.” Well, that statement is completely inaccurate when referencing domestic terrorism here in the U.S considering left wing terrorism dominates domestic terrorist activities. In fact, if you combine right wing and Islamic terrorism activities inside the U.S. you will find that even with that calculation, left wing terrorism trumps both even when you combine the two. 3. Terrorism is a criminal activity whether anyone likes it or not. Criminals, in the U.S., are to be arrested by law enforcement be they federal, state, and or local.
I have to respectfully disagree with you and for a couple reasons. 1. You sound like you work in the government or military or are an academic student who swallowed a lot of Koolaid using words like “transnational.” Transnational refers to a borderless concept of global travel where international respects and accepts a world with borders. So, if your using the word transnational either you don’t respect or believe in a world with borders, your using it in the gist of terrorist who don’t respect and accept a world with borders, or you simply swallowed a lot of government jargon that actually inaccurately defines global terrorism.
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