Don't you find it odd that we have no access to even rudimentary data concerning terrorism?
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{U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.}
906938
Hate to say this, but you are not in a position to know this Information.... I was able to find Information, but again, I have a Security Clearance...
106334
its hard to get info like that these days because u could be a terrorist
142252
The Patriot Act did not create any new laws, only consolidated existing ones, so terrorism has nothing to do with it.  The government, with reasonable premises and a sometimes a court order, can pull IMs and phone logs for a number of reasons, just being that they believe you or her were involved in any crime they are investigating.
493806
Hmm... Why?  Planning to blow one up?  \n\nSince the terrorism scares, if you even go hunting for this kind of info on the web you may get a visit from the FBI.
547105
Certainly. What's wrong with them having the information?
1032021
Seems a little iffy to me.  I'll have to hear some more actual facts first.  (Which is probably a pipe dream since, according to our present government, just about everything is a state secret related to "national security").
1105760
Not in my opinion.  I mean, come on, if you're a terrorist, you've got to know that financial transactions are already being monitored.  How secret could this really have been?  I read the NYT article and wasn't even remotely surprised  - actually I had to admit I was kind of impressed by the scope of the program (i.e., overseas wire transactions) and how long it had been going on.  It seems to be pretty effective, and there appear to be safeguards in place to prevent abuses in terms of privacy protection.  Plus it's not like they're doing the wiretap thing where they're sifting a lot of data indiscriminately - in this case it seems like the intelligence agencies are pinpointing what they're looking for before they do their data mining.\n\nAnd the NYT has known about this for some time.  The editor-in-chief was clear about his motives, to inform the public and let us make our own decisions about what's appropriate.  Ain't that kinda what a democracy is about?\n\nAgain, as far as weakening our ability to fight terrorism, well, I think it's completely naive to believe that terrorists aren't already aware of the monitoring programs set up to investigate potential \nterrorist activity.  The really smart ones have already figured out ways around it - financial disguises, as it were - and they've doubtless got brilliant (if misguided) minds on their payroll to launder the money.\n\nSo the program is probably weeding out the idiots, and teaching us more about how money is transferred.  I seriously doubt that the exposure of the program itself (which you may have noticed was NOT specific in terms of logistics, identities, and procedures) will have any effect at all on our ability to prevent and prosecute terrorist activities.\n\nIf someone can present a cogent, objective, polite argument as to how exactly this article threatens national security, by all means please share it.
587073
That information is not public.
296670
The CIA does not do such things.\n\nThis does not seem to have anything to do with statistics.
1018224
Yes I do.  If you have nothing to hide, why worry.  They only have visual access to the information, not the actual money.
537431
I totally agree! If you have nothing to hide, why worry? \n\nIf it will get terrorist caught, drug dealers brought down, child predators put away, rapist thrown behind bars, etc.\n\nWhat a wonderful world it would be..\n\nPersonally, I thought the CIA flagged calls from terrorist all along! I was so surprised to find out that it wasn't so. I feel much safer knowing that this is being done now... Maybe that is why we haven't had another 911.
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Unless you are engaging in activity that could be construed as aiding and abetting terrorism, I think you are being overly paranoid.\n\nThe government is engaging in those activities, but it has more to do with data mining. The government has a program called Tempest that is capable of monitoring electronics within the nation, but it does not do so arbitarily. Tempest runs in the background. When certain key phrases come up (for instance, "I want to kill the President"), Tempest roars to life and signals agents that someone to watch out for has been identified.\n\nThe government does not just arbitrarily say, "I think I'm gonna listen in on Sam's conversation tonight and see what pops up." That is like finding a needle in a haystack.
19707
No one has to date, been willing to pay the hostage fee. Will we never learn that we cannot negotiate with terrorists?
797826
Interesting question. I have often wondered about this myself. I usually get my answer deleted whenever I discuss what I think the demsdo, It is obvious that they look over everything the terrorists do to us. There has to be a reason, but again, I can't tell my thoughts about it.. but it's time America wake up and see what they are doing. Thank God for smart people who have enough brains to see the truth...
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there is no detailed information... and i think the number is very high..
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I think it very convincing. I remember wondering why there was no exterior plane wreckage the day it happened. If it was a missile or a military plane the government would want to hush it up as it would be difficult to pin that on Islamic nationalists unless they had help. It is a bit like the anthrax attacks. One of the 9-11skyjackers was treated for an anthrax skin lesion, an extremely rare condition before 9-11. There was also a very direct link between one of the skyjackers and the first anthrax victim. His former landlord worked in the same building. Yet the government avoided investigating any links and tried to find a scapegoat.