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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaahv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Asthebarbaricattacksin Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, and Orlando have demonstrated, we need to enhance our capabilities to detect and thwart terrorists as they plan attacks. With the proliferation of off-the-shelf encryption technologies and other operational security measures, terrorists are becoming harder to find by traditional technical collection methods such aswiretaps and signals intelligence (SIGINT). Meeting thisthreat meansinvesting in human intelligence (HUM INT) capabilities at home-not just at thefederal level, but also at thestateand local levels. In an important speech nearly adecade ago, Gen. Michael Hayden, a retired four-star Air Force general and former director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, described the challenges the United Statesfaced then and the critical importanceof intelligence in winning thewar on terrorism. We're now in an age in which our primary adversary is easy to kill, he's just very hard to find. So you can understand why so much emphasis in t he last five years has been placed on intelligence. Moreover, the moment of an enemy's attack may be just that, a moment, asplit second, the time it takes for an airliner to crash or abomb to detonate. There can belittle or no time to defeat him on the battlefield he's chosen.' (emphasis added) This rings even truer today. In theageof ISIS- directed, -enabled, and -inspired attacks against our homeland, the enemy is harder to find than ever before. We have limited opportunities to detect and disrupt him. Our future success depends on our ability to adapt. It is not enough to maintain thestatusquo and hope for better results. Terrorists have evolved since September 11; our domestic national security efforts must also evolve. One key is the expanded use of H UM INT, which will help local law enforcement agencies combat those who seek to harm Americans. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE 1

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