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      "title": "U.S. Anti-Terror Strategy and the 9/11 Commission Report",
      "summary": "On July 22, 2004 the 9/11 Commission released its final report. The report calls for changes to\nbe\nmade by the executive branch and Congress to more effectively protect our nation in an age of\nmodern terrorism and provides forty-one concrete recommendations. Generally, the\nrecommendations of the 9/11 Commission as they relate to strategy content and implementation\nappear consistent with, and supportive of, the National Strategy. Few question the 9/11 Commission\nReport's overarching premise that U.S. counter-terrorism structure, strategy, and implementation can\nbe improved.\n  Some, however, see certain Commission recommendations as incomplete, if not flawed. They\nsuggest that the Commission is often focused on the \"last war\" and not a future one and suggest that\nthe Commission consciously avoids tackling some of the more complex, yet pressing issues. For\nexample, the Commission, as its first recommendation, stresses the need for identifying and\nprioritizing terrorist sanctuaries with a focus on failed states. Some assert, however, that terrorists\nare increasingly returning to their politically stable home countries for sanctuary where they blend\ninto local communities, where their training camps are in civilian housing complexes, and where\ntheir bomb factories are in private residences. Although a number of the Commission's\nrecommendations fall within the category of preventing the growth of Islamic extremism, none\naddresses directly the issue of confronting incitement to terrorism when promoted, countenanced,\nor facilitated by the action -- or inaction -- of nation states.\n  With terrorists able to change targets, tactics, and weapons on short notice, many argue that a\nsuccessful counterterrorism strategy and institutional structures will need similar flexibility. The\ndegree to which such flexibility will be built into strategy, and into any new institutional structures\nrecommend by the 9/11 Commission, is yet to be determined. \n  On December 17, 2004, President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Prevention Act of\n2004 ( S. 2845 ,  P.L. 108-458 ) establishing the position of National Intelligence Director\n(a position separate from that of the CIA Director) to serve as the President's principal intelligence\nadvisor, overseeing and coordinating the foreign and domestic activities of the intelligence\ncommunity. Established as well is a National Counterterrorism Center designed to serve as a\ncentral\nknowledge bank for information about known and suspected terrorists and to coordinate and monitor\ncounterterrorism plans and activities of all government agencies. The Center will also be responsible\nfor preparing the daily terrorism threat report for the President.",
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