Congressional methods for coordinating U.S. intelligence operations and counterterrorism

¶ … Congress Toward Coordination of Intelligence

Defensive analysis: This is one of the steps taken by the congress toward coordination of intelligence in the United States of America, the process involves looking for vulnerabilities within an organization, mainly the individual organization while closing any discovered hole. While doing this process, it is important to consider the benefits and risks, which are involved through out the process. This process of coordinating intelligence mainly centers on one's own organization. In an organization, an intruder or an enemy can use possible fragilities as leeway for carrying out attacks. Attacks are misplaced normally when one's problems and lose ends are utilized. The United States of America congress had to involve this method with an aim of establishing the possibilities, strengths, and weaknesses, which are being witnessed by an organization, together with the benefits and disadvantages of doing this.

Offensive counterespionage: this is another step taken by the congress in order to coordinate its intelligence. This method involves the pursuit of a set of technical work against any realized FIS personnel while making arrests of them. After arrests are made, the process requires them out of the intelligentsia progress because they are made persona non grata. Within this minimum, intelligence is sort from the FIS personnel while achieve-making manipulations of the FIS to destroy the hostile FIS organization (Treverton et al., 2005).

Counterintelligence Force Protection Source Operations (CFSO): this process incorporates human operations that are done abroad in order to bridge the existing separation within the coverage of the national level while protecting any force from terrorism together with what is termed espionage. This is a critical undertaking since it ensures the relations between the nations over which the search has taken place, remain consolidated and does not feel any negative effects. The cooperative intelligence, which links the two nations, works in a way that it becomes very independent from the country abroad.

2. What distinguishes Jose Padilla from Timothy McVeigh on global stage?

Jose Padilla is an American who was accused of colluding with the al-Qaida. His presentation on and off stage are critical of what he had suffered while under arrest. On the other hand, Timothy James McVeigh was an American internal terrorist. He is well-known to have detonated a truck bomb in Oklahoma in 1995. He is known to have killed 168 people with many injuries ranging to eight hundred.

On a global stage, Jose Padilla and McVeigh have differing characteristics. Padilla is sought to have experience outrageous government conduct. He underwent varied levels of torture while in custody up to a state where he could not stand trial. He appeared psychologically traumatized while on stage. He behaved vivaciously so that nothing could take place between him and the court process. His mental orientations seemed disarrayed. Unlike McVeigh, Padilla hosted a number of abnormal behaviors. Globally, he is viewed as a conspirator. He conspired against the nation of United States of America and teamed up with its enemies in al Qaeda terrorists. After making rudimentary claims that, he was not involved with the al Qaeda movement. Padilla still existed with the case that he had gone against his duties. He had conspired with an enemy and made himself an enemy to the United States of America. He denied his charges though this is not described physically. He decided to go silent in everything that he was asked. This is contrary McVeigh who confessed. He is known to have conspired with weapons of mass destruction and destroyed buildings while killing people in Oklahoma (Hughbank et al., 2011).

Padilla demonstrated some level of mental incompetency while on stage. McVeigh withstood everything, and was ready for ready to tackle al forthcoming events. He never covered his face. He was bold and firm. Padilla appeared ashamed from what he had done. He covered his face with goggles so that he could not be viewed directly. He behaved with mental redundancy. Moreover, the global stage perceived Padilla as a betrayer of his own nation while McVeigh is a betrayer of his own people and the occupation he had occupied for many years.

5. What is new about internationalization or globalization of terrorism?

Internationalization or globalization of terrorism is a new facet, which has entered the world trends of communication, interaction, international relations, and trade. The world is currently like a bomb ready to explode. With the nature of human interaction that has taken place, terrorism has shifted its roots and plans to incorporate simple and complex plans and strategies. With the intensification of technology, much is yet to be known as in accordance with the trends of terrorism in the world. Terrorism has been witnessed in every part of the world. The international human relations together with global policy-making processes have led to intensification of wars in various part of the world.

The justification of war is something that has taken root in the industrialized globe. Massive undertakings exist in the strategies and plans of many nations like the U.S.A., Afghanistan, Russia, and even in Germany. Moreover, justification of war has led to increase in simple crimes among individual nations. Global trends as applied in marketing have shifted to terrorism. Some cold war occurring without the interrupt of the global needs to have a globalized and universal world (Nassar, 2005). Evidently, the existence of the social media has also sought to advance many terrorist operations because of the enhance coordination. Such incidences of globalization have seen the growth of many terror groups because of the enhanced communication and ability to disguise the footsteps that might expose their operations. The aspect of globalization of terrorism has also seen their advanced ability in executing their propaganda strategies and reaching the global audience within the shortest possible time.

The internalization of globalization of terrorism has also seen almost everyone being a victim of such activities. Unlike previously where terrorist targeted the western nations and their citizens, the current actions have seen also terrorists targeting citizens from their home countries who tend to favor the west. This has also seen some influential world leaders like Ghadafi being ousted because of his possible financing of terror groups or not favoring the quest to end the vice. Globalization has also promoted the element of religious fundamentalism where terror activities are intertwined with religion in order to enhance the disguise. Radical Islam is seen to be perpetuated by the internalization of terror groups. It is evident the globalization has powered terror activities (Nassar, 2005).