National security has become a major issue since the attacks of September 11, 2001. How do we as a nation expand our intelligence operations to protect the citizens while still keeping their civil liberties in tact? Americans and its government have taken steps to further secure the nation and its assets. However; not every building in the U.S can be protected, this requires many different agencies working together to secure the borders, the buildings, and the people.
Many people assume that because there have been no attacks that these measures are working, but just as the attacks on 9/11 proved and even the Pearl Harbor attack some sixty years earlier we will never know how protected we are until the protective measures are in action. These attacks have taught us that the different levels of government need to work together in order to be efficient. Whether it is the Central Intelligence Agency or the local police department, we as a nation have enough resources if they are......
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