INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following 7 questions writing at least one-half page, double-spaced, Times New Roman #12 font for each question. Your overall finished essay exam should be at least 4 pages in length, following these guidelines. HINT: Do not use length of answer as a guide for when to finish an answer; i.e. some answers may be lengthier than others depending on the question. Finally, citations are not required. This should be entirely your own thoughts. Ten points per question possible. Each questions will be graded individually. Submit all papers in the appropriate place in Moodle. IMPORTANT: Please cut and paste these questions below onto your final product, placing each of them preceding your corresponding answers. 1. Looking at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and all its agencies in detail (Chapter 2 of the text), and with hindsight being 20/20, how would you have laid out and organized DHS in order to better protect America against a terrorist attack? In other words, if you were tasked with forming the new DHS, what would you have done differently? You can answer this question in general or specific terms. 2. In your opinion, which of the three presidential administrations best grasped the problem of terrorism--Clinton, Bush, Obama? Fully justify your position. If you don't think any of them have truly grasped the problem, justify your position on this also. 3. Describe ways in which nuclear or radiological materials can be used by terrorists as weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). 4. Discuss how shortcomings in our intelligence collection prior to the events of 9/11 may have hurt the U.S. Government's ability to anticipate the 9/11 attacks. Particularly which type of intelligence activity commonly used by the U.S. was most lacking at the time, and how did this lacking contribute to the problem? 5. What are your views regarding the current make-up of the U.S. Intelligence Community? Do you feel it is well-organized, or is it too expansive and disjointed? Elaborate on your views. 6. Explain your position on whether or not cyber warfare should be a part of the U.S. Military arsenal, and why or why not? 7. Open Question -- Using Chapter 13, "The Response to Homeland Security Incidents" OR Chapter 14, "Homeland Security and Policing", from the text as a guide, describe a topic of interest to you from within one of these two chapters. Your topic can be specific or general, provided you discuss it with original thinking and in your own words. DO NOT simply regurgitate from the text book

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following 7 questions writing at least one-half page, double-spaced, Times New Roman #12 font for each question. Your overall finished essay exam should be at least 4 pages in length, following these guidelines. HINT: Do not use length of answer as a guide for when to finish an answer; i.e. some answers may be lengthier than others depending on the question. Finally, citations are not required. This should be entirely your own thoughts. Ten points per question possible. Each questions will be graded individually.



Submit all papers in the appropriate place in Moodle.



IMPORTANT: Please cut and paste these questions below onto your final product, placing each of them preceding your corresponding answers.



1. Looking at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and all its agencies in detail (Chapter 2 of the text), and with hindsight being 20/20, how would you have laid out and organized DHS in order to better protect America against a terrorist attack? In other words, if you were tasked with forming the new DHS, what would you have done differently? You can answer this question in general or specific terms.



2. In your opinion, which of the three presidential administrations best grasped the problem of terrorism--Clinton, Bush, Obama? Fully justify your position. If you don't think any of them have truly grasped the problem, justify your position on this also.



3. Describe ways in which nuclear or radiological materials can be used by terrorists as weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).



4. Discuss how shortcomings in our intelligence collection prior to the events of 9/11 may have hurt the U.S. Government's ability to anticipate the 9/11 attacks. Particularly which type of intelligence activity commonly used by the U.S. was most lacking at the time, and how did this lacking contribute to the problem?



5. What are your views regarding the current make-up of the U.S. Intelligence Community? Do you feel it is well-organized, or is it too expansive and disjointed? Elaborate on your views.



6. Explain your position on whether or not cyber warfare should be a part of the U.S. Military arsenal, and why or why not?



7. Open Question -- Using Chapter 13, "The Response to Homeland Security Incidents" OR Chapter 14, "Homeland Security and Policing", from the text as a guide, describe a topic of interest to you from within one of these two chapters. Your topic can be specific or general, provided you discuss it with original thinking and in your own words. DO NOT simply regurgitate from the text book