Two new agencies, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security, were created after September 11, 2001
What is the purpose of each agency? What events led to their creation? How successful have they been?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Identify the purpose of the ODNI as oversight of the various intelligence agencies and coordination of their information, and the purpose of the DHS as coordination of the work of various agencies involved in preventing and responding to attacks on the United States.
2, Discuss how the Central Intelligence Agency, which previously had primary responsibility for collecting and analyzing intelligence information, had information about al-Qaeda but failed to foresee the September 11 terrorist attacks.
3, Note that this failure was blamed on a lack of coordination of information, which led to the creation of these two new agencies in an attempt to make the foreign policy bureaucracy more efficient and effective.
4, Explain that there is significant resistance to sharing information among the various agencies overseen by these two umbrella agencies because each strives to protect its own turf, and thereby protect its budget, so meeting the goal of coordination of information is difficult.
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Which of the following statements about Supreme Court justices and political ideology is correct?
A. Because the job of Supreme Court justices is to interpret the Constitution, each justice's political ideology has no effect on his or her conclusions. B. The liberal or conservative slant of Supreme Court justices has an impact on their rulings, but a minor one. C. The liberal or conservative slant of Supreme Court justices can be used to predict their rulings with near-perfect accuracy. D. Because the Supreme Court must be objective in its rulings, people with observable political leanings are almost never nominated as justices. E. The liberal or conservative slant of Supreme Court justices has a significant impact on their rulings.
Prior to the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health care costs and the percentage of uninsured Americans increased dramatically
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The special funding procedure for one-time, nonrecurring expenditures, such as purchasing university buildings, rapid transit systems, and bridges, is termed
a. an incremental budget. b. a capital budget. c. a line item budget. d. a performance budget.
Both John McCain and Barack Obama raised most of their money for the 2008 presidential campaign through donations of $200 and under
Indicate whether the statement is true or false