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Salon.com September 12, 2002 Robert Scheer	Where's Osama? Sept. 11 could have been avoided if our intelligence agencies had done their job.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	The 9/11 Report: Details of the central event of our time It's not the sophisticated sensors, signal processing, satellite communications, and automation technology that wins the day in the end; it's the people who use the technology that make the difference.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Charles Perrow	Shrink The Targets Human nature can better withstand a dozen small disasters than a single great one, even if the casualty total is the same. Protecting America's big targets is next to impossible; we should instead downsize them to make them less consequential and easier to protect.
PC World July 9, 2002 Dan Verton	Experts Expect a Major Terrorist Cyberattack Security and intelligence officials say an attack will happen, and warn that we're not ready to respond.
National Defense November 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Al-Qaida Seen Shifting Tactics to Smaller Attacks The Boston bombing quickly brought domestic jihadist terrorism back into the public eye. Counterterrorism analysts are now concerned that the United States may soon face an increase in deadly, smaller scale attacks.
Salon.com February 8, 2002 Nina Burleigh	Bush, oil and the Taliban In a new book, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," two French intelligence analysts allege that before Sept. 11, the White House put oil interests ahead of national security...
InternetNews March 20, 2008	Bush Picks Security Aide With Wiretap Background U.S. President George W. Bush named a Justice Department official with experience in terrorism wiretap programs as his White House homeland security adviser on Wednesday.
National Defense March 2009 Charles Faddis	CIA Must Return To Its Roots To Become Effective Once Again Almost seven decades after the birth of this civilian intelligence agency, we need to go back to the beginning -- to a lean, flexible, imaginative organization trained and equipped to confront our nation's enemies.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Grill AG Over Wiretaps Change in policy over warrantless wiretaps of calls and e-mail prompt sharp questioning from Democrats.
Parameters Spring 2005 Saxby Chambliss	We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure.
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Laura Miller	A new breed of terrorism A security expert says it's time for the U.S. to declare war on those who are waging war on America...
Wired December 2001 John Arquilla & David Ronfeldt	Fighting The Network War Conventional military power stands little chance against a band of swarming 14th-century terrorists, according to the authors, RAND analysts who wrote the book on "netwar." Here's their five-point plan to tear apart the terror network...
Salon.com October 11, 2002 William M. Arkin	Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them.
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Paul Magnusson	The Smart Way To Fix Intelligence From Pearl Harbor to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the lesson keeps being repeated: A dollar spent on identifying the threat and preventing the attack can be worth far more than the millions spent safeguarding targets or the billions spent cleaning up the aftermath.
AskMen.com	Officials: CIA program targeted al-Qaida leaders A secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range.
Reason December 2007 Jeff Taylor	Rant: Unconnected Dots It was bureaucratic hubris, not a lack of actionable intelligence, that allowed 9/11 to happen.
InternetNews August 6, 2007 Roy Mark	Bush Signs Temporary Wiretap Law A new law allows government to conduct surveillance of foreign e-mails and phone calls without a warrant.
Salon.com October 24, 2002 Robert Scheer	How to defeat the Axis of Evil The United States has more powerful weapons than planes and tanks: Trade, aid and Hollywood.
Reason December 2001	Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war...
PC World September 12, 2001 Joris Evers	Spy Technology: Too Little, Too Late? Echelon, other high-tech surveillance tools may not have been effective when needed...
Fast Company March 15, 2007 J.J. Brazil	Mission: Impossible? The FBI is battling to transform itself in an age of technology and terrorism. It may be the toughest, most important change effort of our time.
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
Salon.com September 30, 2002 Arianna Huffington	Osama who? The White House's focus on Saddam is meant to divert attention from America's still-AWOL Public Enemy No. 1.
National Defense September 2010 Eric Beidel	Social Scientists and Mathematicians Join The Hunt for Terrorists Internet chat rooms and other online discussion forums supplement, and in some cases, have replaced mosques, community centers and coffee shops as meeting spots for jihadists, experts say.
PC World September 12, 2001 Dan Verton	Next: Cyberterrorism? Security experts urge companies to guard against digital violence...
National Defense May 2011 Stew Magnuson	FBI Anticipates Terrorist Attacks on Soft Targets in the United States Brenda Heck, deputy assistant director of the agency's counterterrorism division, said an attack similar to the 2008 assault on hotels and other buildings in Mumbai, India, is possible here.
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al.	Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice.
Reason November 2003	Show Us Your Money The USA PATRIOT Act lets the feds spy on your finances. But does it help catch terrorists?
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy	Intelligence Sharing: `Still a Battle' According to the National Counterterrorism Center, despite efforts since 9/11 to improve the gathering and analysis of government and military intelligence, getting agencies to pool information is still difficult.
AskMen.com Craig Mazin	Top 10: Spy Agencies Many countries place great importance on the function of their intelligence/spy agencies. Intelligence failures can lead to terrible consequences, while successes can help countries avert unnecessary tragedies. Read on about the top 10 presently active spy agencies operating in the world today.
Salon.com November 1, 2001 Laura Miller	Who is Osama bin Laden? Is he a cog in a vast wheel of state-sponsored terrorism -- or a new breed of freelance evil genius?
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	2005: The Year to Get a Handle on Terrorism Despite the compromise intelligence bill hammered out by Congress Dec. 7 and 8, the issue of coordinating this country's intelligence operations to tackle the issue of terrorism is far from resolved.
Wired October 2009 Stephen Lee	Secret Ops, Domestic Spying OK -- As Long As Someone's Watching the Watchmen If the U.S. wants a successful intelligence agency, a certain amount of opacity is not only acceptable, it's necessary.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	A Domestic Counterterrorism Agency? It's a Numbers Game The question of whether to create a standalone domestic intelligence agency for counter-terrorism comes down to some cold, hard math, said The Rand Corp. in a recent study.
Salon.com September 11, 2001	What does it all mean? Horowitz: "America is soft." Vincent: "Proud to be a New Yorker." Military expert: Signs point to "the Afghan group." And more reactions...
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg	Political Intelligence What happens when U.S. spies get the goods -- and the government won't listen?
PC World September 12, 2001 Tom Spring & Frank Thorsberg	Will Attack Hurt Net Privacy? Privacy advocates urge government to balance security needs and civil liberties...
Salon.com December 20, 2001 Asla Aydintasbas	The midnight ride of James Woolsey The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening?
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Feds lagging in most disaster scenarios, McHale says The federal government has identified 15 homeland disaster scenarios for which it must prepare. But does making lists equate to preparedness?
Salon.com September 25, 2001 Anthony York	Salon's war reader Don't know much about Central Asian history? Osama bin Laden? The Web provides a crash course in what's needed to understand "America's new war"...
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	Advisory Board Says Military Must Define Role in Homeland Defense The Pentagon needs to improve and integrate its maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets with those of the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, CIA and FBI, according to a recent Defense Science Board study.
Parameters Summer 2006 Arthur C. Winn	The Future of US Intelligence The four books reviewed here address the future of US intelligence. However, each has a different focus: Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America...and How the CIA has Ignored it by Curt Weldon... etc.
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Intelligence: The Silver Bullet That Will Beat the Insurgency Until the military can come to grips with their intelligence problem in Iraq, it will continue to pay the price in the form of casualties, which have now reached nearly 2,000 dead and more than 14,000 wounded.
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson	DHS Warns Local Law Enforcement Of New Homegrown Terrorist Threat The general consensus in the intelligence community is that the homegrown terrorist threat during the last year has supplanted plots that originate overseas.
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	White House Officials To Meet With Tech Execs To Discuss Countering Terrorism Online They will discuss the ongoing concern of how terrorists have become adept at using social media to recruit members and converts online.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	The Challenges of Command and Control in Urban Operations In the past, offensive military operations have usually been conducted in urban environments only when unavoidable, but conflicts are shifting into the cities, where terrorists and insurgents find safe havens.
Salon.com July 17, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	The case of the missing code Are al-Qaida terrorists hiding their secrets in eBay photographs?
Military History Quarterly Rose Mary Sheldon	Toga & Dagger: Espionage in Ancient Rome Ancient Rome is remembered as one of the greatest military powers in history, its fame derived from the fearsome reputation of the empire's legionnaires. Lost in the telling, however, is the important role that espionage played in Rome's ascent to empire.
InternetNews October 27, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Twitter an Emerging Terrorist Tool Military paper outlines some of the emerging uses of tech in ways that can hurt.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry.