Download How the attacks on 911 changed the security

Iris van Melsen,
Shararah Said
&
Leila El Sahragty
The attack on the Twin Towers
September 11, 2001, New York
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from al-Qaeda (an Islamist
extremist group) hijacked four airplanes and crashed two of these planes into
the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Eventually
both towers collapsed because of the damage. The attack killed 2753 people in
New York. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
The fourth plane was targeted at Washington D.C, but crashed into a field near
Shankville, Pennsylvania.
In this Prezi we will show you the most significant changes America made in
their security system after the attacks on this day.
USA Patriot Act
October 26,2001, Washington D.C
The Patriot Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush shortly after
the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
The title of the act is an acronym that stands for Uniting and Strengtheing
America by Providing Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of
2001.
The goals of the Act are to strengthen domestic security and expand the power of
law-enforcement agencies with regards to identifying and stopping terrorists.
The Patriot Act is divided into ten Titles, each Title is covering a law to provide
more safety in the United States.
Because of the Patriot Act the government also has more privileges to basically
spy on citizens by, for example, checking their e-mails.
This event is significant because it has been created because of the attacks on
September 11.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Illinois
Frank James "Jim" Sensenbrenner, Jr. is born June 14, 1943 is
an American politician who has been a member of the Republican Party in the
United States House of Representatives since 1979, representing Wisconsin's 5th
congressional district.
In 1998, Sensenbrenner had an important role in the impeachment of former U.S.
President Bill Clinton, acting as one of the House managers.
Sensenbrenner introduced the USA PATRIOT Act to the House on October 23,
2001. He did not write the act. The primary author was Assistant Attorney
General of the United States Viet Dinh. Nevertheless, Sensenbrenner has been
recognized as "one of the architects of the Patriot Act." In November 2004,
Sensenbrenner and California Congressman Duncan Hunter objected to
provisions of a bill that, among other things, created a Director of National
Intelligence, a key recommendation of the National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States, known as the 9/11Commission.
He was a significant person because he introduced the USA PATRIOT Act.
The Transportation Security Administration
November 19, 2001
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United
States Department of Homeland Security, which exercises authority of the
traveling public in the Unite States.
The TSA was established as a response to the attacks on September 11, 2001. Its
goals are devoloping policies to protect the States' transportation and preventing
aircraft hijacking.
The TSA is very significant for the changes after the attacks in September, 2001,
because they have changed a lot of security matters at airports all over the
United States.
Shoe Bomb
December 22, 2001, Florida
A failed bombing attempt on 22 December 2001, that occurred on American
Airlines Flight 63 flying from Paris to Miami International Airport. There were
197 passengers and crew on the plane. An Islamic fundamentalist from the
United Kingdom called Richard Reid carried shoes that were packed with two
types of explosives. Passengers on the flight complained of a smoke smell and
one flight attendance (Hermis Moutardier) walked through the plane to assess
the source. After Hermis asked Reid what he was doing, he grabbed at her,
revealing one shoe in his lap, a fuse leading into the shoe, and a lit match.
Unfortunately for Reid, his feet foiled his plans. The gunpowder in his shoes
would not ignite due to his excessive feet sweat, dampening the gunpowder and
disallowing it to ignite. Eventually Reid was subdued (using plastic handcuffs
etc) by other passengers on the airplane.
Because this event happened in a short time after 9/11, terrorism was still
playing a huge part. If this wouldn’t had been, the passengers might not have
noticed Reid. And unfortunately would have been dead.
Information Awareness Office:
January, 2002, Indiana
Was established in January 2002 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying
information technology and surveillance to monitor and track terrorists and
other asymmetric threats to United States national security, by achieving “Total
Information Awareness” (TIA). TIA is aimed to gather detailed information about
individuals in order to prevent and anticipate crimes before they are committed.
They achieved this by creating enormous computer databases to store and
gather personal information (e-mails, credit card records etc) of everyone in the
United States.
It is important because the government can now look better at the information
that spreads all over the United States. It makes the chance smaller that an event
such as 9/11 will ever happen again.
John Poindexter
Indiana
John Poindexter, born in Indiana on August 12, 1936, led the Information
Awareness Office. Vice President Dick Cheney recommended him.
He served as the Director of the IAO from January 2002 till August 2003. After
the IAO funding was subsequently cut, he retired. He is a significant person
because he led the IAO.
United States Department of Homeland Security
November 25, 2002, Washington D.C
A department of the United States federal government, created in response to the
9/11 attacks. Their primary responsibilities are protecting the United States
from terrorist attacks, man-made accidents and natural disasters. It was formed
on 25 November 2002 after George W. Bush signed the bill into law.
An example of what the United states Department of Homeland Security has
done is a color-coded terrorism risk advisory scale created on 12 March 2002 as
the result of a Presidential Directive (a form of an executive order issued by
the President of the United States) to provide a “comprehensive and effective
means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to Federal,
State, local authorities and to American citizen.”
Is important because it was a response to 9/11 and made new rules which will
hopefully protect America from terrorism.
Tom Ridge
Pennsylvania
Was born in Munhall, Pennsylvania on 26 August, 1945. He was assistant of the
President for Homeland Security. After George W. Bush created the Office of
Homeland Security within the White House, he named Ridge to head it. Ridge
worked with the employees from combined agencies to strengthen borders,
provide for intelligence analysis and infrastructure protection and much more.
He is important because he was one of the people who created the Office of
Homeland Security and because of this department America got stricter rules.
And terrorism will probably happen less often.
George Walker Bush
New Haven, Connecticut
George Walker Bush is born July 6, 1946. He is an American politician and
businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States of America
from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was
born in New Haven, Connecticut.
On October 26, 2001, George Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
President Bush on November 2001 signed an order that called for foreigners
charged with terrorism to be tried by military tribunals and that they be
classified as illegal enemy combatants. Such courthouses permitted the
admission of hearsay and evidence obtained under pressure, and allowed secret
evidence that would be shown to the jury but not the opposing party. In addition,
the opposing party could be excluded from portions of his own trial. He is a
significant person because he was the President during the 9/11.
Changes in the immigration system
One of the changes that has been made after the attacks on September, 11, is that
the immigration policy has been the heightened examination on people who
want to enter the United States. Soon after the attacks had happened, the
government tightened the process of issuing temporary visas to other foreign
nationals.
In 2004 the Department of Homeland Security introduced US-VISIT, a program
that requires the capture of biometric data of foreign nationals at visa-issuing
overseas posts and at ports of entry in the United States.
The government has also expand the possibilities to control the southern and
northern borders. After September, 11, the government invested heavily in the
construction of physical barriers and virtual fences along the United StatesMexico border.
With all these changes in their immigration system it is a significant event in the
changes after September, 11.
Barrack Hussein Obama
Honulu, Hawaï
Barack Hussein Obama is born August 4, 1961 is the 44th and current President
of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. He was
born in Honolulu, Hawaï
the USA Patriot Act, set to expire at the end of 2005, was first extended and then
renewed in 2006. The Obama administration has continued to use the law,
ability to eavesdrop on those in the U.S. and abroad it suspects are linked to
terrorist activities. and technology to eavesdrop on terror suspects and to
disrupt terror networks. In fact, President Obama is pushing to expand on the
law to force telecommunications companies to allow their networks to be
monitored and make sure their technology does not interrupt such surveillance.
In May 2011, three provisions of the law scheduled to expire were extended: the
use of "roving wiretaps" to follow individuals when they switch phone numbers
or carriers; investigators may obtain court orders to search business records of
an individual for "any tangible things" related to an inquiry; and officials have
the authority to conduct surveillance on foreign individuals suspected of having
ties to terrorist groups.
He is important because he is the President these days.
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