Consider the "How Do We Know?" box. Why is it difficult to determine whether the federal bureaucracy deserves credit for preventing another 9/11?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe the policy reforms initiated following 9/11, including the reorganization of the federal bureaucracy so that various intelligence and law enforcement agencies would be better coordinated and engage in greater intelligence information sharing.
2, Note that since 9/11, the U.S. government has successfully thwarted several high-profile terrorist plots.
3, Explain at least two challenges in determining whether the federal bureaucracy deserves credit for preventing subsequent terrorist attacks, including the difficulty of separating the policies created by Congress and the president from their implementation by the bureaucracy and the difficulty of determining the size of the terrorist threat.
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