Therefore, one must be both committed to the law, as well as to individual freedom, and this would be in keeping with the trends as dictated by a democratic country such as the United States of America.
It must be stated that in the Post Cold War world, crimes such as terrorism, narcotics drugs trafficking, money laundering, and so on, are all considered to be serious threats to the very security of the entire nation. These threats are in fact termed as 'transnational threats', and they are today, in the face of the changing nature of crime and related security, the primary concerns of law enforcement agencies as well as that of the U.S. Intelligence Community. For example, two serious foreign banking scandals that occurred during the late years of the 1980's, made sure of the fact that any information that would be in the hands of Intelligence Agencies in the United States of America must be made available to law enforcement officials as well. This led in turn to the development wherein, during the middle of the 1990's, the Federal Bureau of Investigation started to assign several more additional agents to newly created offices, all over the world. The great tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001, is a perfect example of how big and frightening the issue of international terrorism has become to the issue of upholding and protecting national security.
In fact, the Bush Administration and the Congress have both moved in a rapid and efficient manner in order to establish more Intelligence and Enforcement cooperation among several different agencies of the United States of America, to face better threats like the Al-quaeda to the national security. It is the opinion of some people that after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact by the year 1991 was innately responsible for altering, in an extremely significant manner, the international environment, and this was the time, therefore, when transnational issues such as terrorism, drug trafficking, shipments of WMD, or in other words, weapons for mass destruction, money laundering, and so on and so forth happened to become very important, and in some cases, these issues gained even more importance than the hitherto traditionally political and all related issues.
As a matter of fact, the Director of central Intelligence, or the DCI, George Tenet, has stated that the threat that has risen from issues like that of terrorism is very real, and it is also an evolving issue. Although the state sponsored method of terrorism appears to have declined today, the method of terrorism being demonstrated by transnational groups, with a unique method of decentralized leadership, which in turn happens to make such groups not only more difficult to identify, but also infinitely more difficult to disrupt and disband, has started to increase everywhere. This means that more concern must be shown towards issues related to international crimes, and as a matter of fact, much before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon in September 2001, were executed, there was a greater amount of interest as well as concern about international crime being carried out all over the world.
It must be noted at this point that although the responsibilities of the Courts of the United States of America and the several law enforcement agencies in America have traditionally always included those activities like for example, smuggling, piracy, and so on, that occur outside the territorial borders of the U.S.A., these activities have never been considered as being threats to the national security of America, or even as being on the same level as the several types of military threats that are being today, posed by foreign countries. These are the responsibilities of the state and the Defense Departments, and the Intelligence Departments of America. What this means is that the changed and the altered international realities have inevitably led to a larger and an infinitely more expansive role to be played by the law enforcement agencies of America, and this must be combined with the employment of intelligence agencies, as well as with the operational departments of the State and the Defense wings.
Therefore, it can be said that while on the one hand there is today the rising phenomenon of agencies being charged with domestic law enforcement, with these officials playing rather extensive roles in overseas missions, on the other hand, there is the occurrence of intelligence agencies laying emphasis and focusing for the main part on the various illegal activities being carried out...
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