Homeland security policy and implementation

¶ … Terrorist is Created:

Terrorist acts are usually motivated by two major reasons i.e. The belief that violence or its threat will be suitable in contributing to change and social and political injustice. Throughout history, many terrorists have stated that they chose violence because they felt they had no alternative after long deliberations. In this case, these terrorists have considered violent acts justify the ends following long deliberations. Notably, there are various factors that contribute to the development and recruitment of terrorists, especially political, religious, economic, and cultural conditions. In most cases, the political and social conditions have been considered as the major factors that result in the creation of a terrorist. Through these conditions, people choose terrorism in attempts to right perceived wrongs in their social or political lives. These individuals resort to violence or its threats when they feel that they have been stripped of their land or denied their human rights through social and political injustices. For instance, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine carried out armed attacks in Israel because they felt that such acts were justifiable response to the seizure of their land (Zalman, n.d.).

There is also likelihood for terrorists to be created when people are subjected to religious repression. For example, Uiqhur Separatists in China and Osama bin Laden justified terrorist tactics to fight Chinese religious repression and promote the development of an Islamic state in Arabian Peninsula against American interests respectively. In this case, terrorists are recruited and developed to respond to such repression and propagate their religious beliefs. Actually, religion is one of the major contributing factors of terrorism in the Arabian Peninsula since it contributes to the rise of Islamic extremists. In some cases, young recruits are seduced by cult-like methods of indoctrination as totally culpable of their decisions. Economically, terrorists are developed because of their poor living circumstances in which violence is used as a means of promoting their living standards.

NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program:

The NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program was part of the President's Surveillance Program that was implemented in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks. This program was implemented by the National Security Agency to intercept al Qaeda communications abroad in which one of the parties is not an individual from the United States. In this case, the wiretapping program seeks to intercept communications where one party is outside America where there are reasonable grounds that at least one of the parties has links with al Qaeda. Therefore, the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program does not seek to intercept domestic calls in the United States. While the program was implemented after the 9/11 terror attacks, it was made public in 2005 and additional details were released in May 2006.

However, the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program has raised numerous concerns in the recent past, especially after an anonymous source confirmed that there are some instances where purely domestic calls were intercepted. The concerns have been mainly exacerbated by questions on whether such interceptions violate the provisions of the Fourth Amendment regarding search tactics for criminal investigations. As a result, the program has been considered as illegal, as a technique for spying on innocent Americans, and violation of the 4th Amendment.