Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Critical Infrastructure Protection, Federal Security Agency, October Crisis
4 Oct 2016
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Historical reluctance to establish permanent federal security agency - fbi 1908, grew during. Then came 9/11: global war on terror > securitizing of america, patriot act 2001 - expanded surveillance. Use of a national security letter to conduct searches , however, letter can be drafted by. Reduces the need to show probable cause, gets rid of the justice system: department of homeland security created, 2003. Homeland security: a group of preventative measures undertaken by a state in an attempt to reduce the probability that a terrorist attack with occur (amos guiora) Executive order establishing dhs: to detect, prepare for, prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks . Need for pre-emptively successful results increases likelihood of errors and abuses (if incentive structure is focused on prevention, it can create abuse) Dhs: concerted action by all levels of government: using all instruments of national power and in uence - diplomatic, information, military, Border control, but also critical infrastructure protection.
