Terrorism Is No Longer a Threat to the U.S.

Terrorism Is No Longer A Threat To The U.S.

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many experts claimed that it only proves the vulnerability of the United States to big and devastating terrorists attacks. This means that even the United States is considered as the most powerful country in the world not only in terms of economic sustainability but also in military and intelligence capabilities, terrorists still can able to do terrorism acts to the country (Scheppler, 2005). Despite of this factor, it leads to the conclusion during those times that terrorism becomes a big threat to the peace and order, and security of the people of the United States. Generally, the even wanted to show that terrorism is a big threat that needs to be addressed by every country in the world.

Today, due to the different efforts and actions made by the United States government since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was been claimed that terrorism is no longer a threat for the country. The different laws, programs, and the way the laws were implemented was claimed an effective effort to proactively avoid and eliminate the risk to once again attacked by any terrorists groups.

This study will discussed and give points about the different efforts made the United States government in order to eliminate any threat of terrorists attacks in the country. Different points will be discussed and how it contributes to the conclusion that terrorism is no longer a threat to the country. The different laws implemented by the United States government will be given an emphasis and how it plays as a very important role in preventing another occurrence of terrorists attacks. The latter part of this study will prove that terrorism is no longer a threat to the people and citizen of the United States of America.

After the 9/11 attack, former United States President George Bush and the Congress immediately enacted different laws that will proactively prevent and eliminate the risk of another terrorists attack. In addition to it, the United States government through its military and intelligence efforts conducted different actions to fought terrorists groups that are considerably the source of different terrorists acts. The following discussion will initially discussed and laws implemented by the United States government and eventually the different efforts made to totally eradicate terrorists groups.

The United States government made the announcement of Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) immediately after the 9/11 attacks (Scheppler, 2005). The said announcement showed that the United States government is serious to war terrorism. GWOT initializes efforts from other country and also starts the formation of the different foreign policy not only in the United States but also by other countries that supports GWOT (Scheppler, 2005). Generally, collaboration of United States to other country through foreign policy has been established, in which it helps the country to easily implement military and intelligence efforts to fight terrorism.

For the first law, the United States Congress immediately enacted the USA Patriot Act on October 26, 2001 immediately after the 9/11 attacks. Its acronym stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Scheppler, 2005). The said act lessens the restrictions of the law enforcement agencies in surveillance, searching, and monitoring the email communication, telephone conversations, different financial, medical, and other important records (Scheppler, 2005). In addition to it, it expands the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make regulations regarding different financial transactions specifically for foreign groups and individuals. The act also lessens the restriction of different foreign intelligence gathering in the United States. It also gives expanded authority to the different law enforcement agencies in detaining and deporting immigrants that has been suspected take part of any terrorism acts either in domestic or global settings (Siegel, 2009).

The act also leads to the different changes and amendments of other existing laws. These laws may include the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Family Educations Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA), Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Right to Financial Privacy Act (RFPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Victims of Crime Act of 1984, and the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (Siegel, 2009). The amendments made of these given laws significantly provides major contribution in proactively eliminate the risk of occurrence of any terrorists acts in the United States.

The enactment of the USA Patriot Act serves as a proactive approach to strictly monitor the different technology and communication devices and tools that might be used by the terrorists groups in plotting their terrorist's plans. The said act blocks and restricts the different terrorist groups to make connivance to any American most especially those in authority (Siegel, 2009).

Another effort made the United States government to eliminate the threat of terrorism in the land is the formation and establishment of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This department was established under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Gaines and Miller, 2006). The department was actually established in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. It is considered as a cabinet department of the U.S. Federal Government (Gaines and Miller, 2006). Its establishment is associated with specific purpose and objectives. The said department is responsible in protecting and securing the United States territory from terrorist