What Is the National Counter Terrorism Center

question 13

Multiple Choice

What is the National Counter Terrorism Center?

• A) It was established by Presidential Executive Order 13354 in August 2004, later codified by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. It is charged with encouraging interagency cooperation and tracks terrorists and terrorist groups.
• B) This position was recommended following the 9/11 attacks on the United States that demonstrated that the some seventeen various intelligence agencies failed to cooperate well together.
• C) It posits that genocide will continue, particularly in some areas of Africa and it will have as a goal the destruction of groups of people that are unlike their aggressors.
• D) In the Presidential Protection Act of 2000, language was included that allowed the Secret Service to become the lead agency. Now the Director of Homeland Security may designate one of these with the Secret Service in charge of security and the FBI in charge of Intelligence.

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