Terrorism and Counterterrorism class notes

Looming tower The 9/11 Commission Report Against All Enemies Bush administration Obama administration Trump administration Leaderless Jihad FBI Director testimony Russ Travers Jared Travers: Digital Counterinsurgency: How to Marginalize the Islamic State online Executive Summary, Digital Forum on the Terrorism Prevention: A Report on Trends and Insights State Department's Twitter War with ISIS is Embarrassing Fear Thy Neighbor UN Report Why do we care about border security 9/11 Staff Report Terrorist Screening Database and Preventing Terrorist Travel Republican Party Statement 20+ Reasons Drones are good 20+ Reasons Drones are bad Drone debate Staff Monograph on Terrorism Financing Treasury’s Wars: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare Money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mutual Evaluation ReportDon’t Follow the Money: The Problem With the War on Terrorist Financing Terrorist Assets Report Calendar Year 2017: Twenty-Sixth Annual Report to the Congress on Assets in the United States Relating to Terrorist Countries and International Terrorism Program Designees The threat of small-dollar terrorism: As extremist attacks get cheaper, it’s time to find smarter ways to track and block the money behind them Can Bankers Fight Terrorism? What You Get When You Follow the Money Financing of Recruitment for Terrorist Purposes Outcomes of US in Afghanistan “Trump’s Flawed Pakistan Policy: Why Islamabad Is Unlikely to Change “Trump’s challenge: A wall of public skepticism on the Afghanistan War: Polls show Americans have soured on the idea of keeping troops in the country Full Transcript and Video: Trump’s Speech on Afghanistan State for the Record by the Senior Bureau Official for South and Central Asian Affairs Staying the Course in Afghanistan: How to Fight the Longest War The Taliban’s Fight for Hearts and Minds The Taliban’s Battle Plan and Why It’s Unlikely to Succeed Peace Talks Privacy vs. National Security The Big Snoop: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists: The divergent views of four respected experts help frame the debate over the future of the NSA in the Snowden Era The Next Bin Laden: Instead of spectacular attacks on iconic targets, al-Qaida's new leader wants small, opportunistic strikes. In other words, restrain the NSA at your peril Surveillance Policy: A Pragmatic Agenda for 2017 and Beyond A Proposed Agenda for the New Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Testimony of former Attorney General William Barr, before the Senate Judiciary Committee John Rizzo: The Legal Case for ‘Enhanced Interrogation’