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		<title>Viewpoint: Don&#8217;t Let the Boston Bombing Take Away Our Privacy Rights</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/02/viewpoint-dont-let-the-boston-bombing-take-away-our-privacy-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 10:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Romero </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston attacks largely confirmed what we already knew about surveillance cameras. They don&#8217;t stop attacks – not in Boston, and not even in London or Times Square, which are blanketed with cameras. They can, however, be helpful in investigations, as they were in Boston. No one objects to cameras at high-profile targets or events; at the same time, we at the American Civil Liberties Union think there needs to be a balance. Government surveillance of everyone’s activities anywhere in public without proper checks and balances could fundamentally alter the way we live our everyday lives. (MORE: The Boston Bombing: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) When Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were first identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing we knew very little about them, except that they were brothers, immigrants and Muslim. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD reacted to the threat of future terrorism with a years-long program of un-American profiling, casting a wide net of suspicion over innocent American Muslims throughout the northeastern United States. Based on a false and unscientific “radicalization” theory, the NYPD spied on entire communities in their places of worship, small businesses, and student- and community-based organizations, based solely on their religious beliefs, race, or national origin. A NYPD official later testified that information collected through the NYPD&#8217;s program did not produce any leads for terrorism investigations. Instead, predictably, the NYPD&#8217;s actions wrongly stigmatized law-abiding Muslims, caused them to deeply distrust the police force instead of seeing it as a source of protection, and wasted law enforcement resources. (MORE: Post-Boston Marathon, How Races Are Heightening Security) Throughout American history, in times of fear, fundamental civil liberties are often restricted in the name of security. Later, those curbs on our freedoms are regretted, but reversing them may take years and may ultimately affect our notions of what constitutes freedom and fairness in the first place. Let&#8217;s not lose sight of the lessons we’ve learned about trading our liberties for a false sense of security in light of the tragedy that occurred in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31974&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorists and Mass Shooters: More Similar Than We Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher J. Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon adds to the litany of tragic violence rocking the U.S. and the world. Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, we’ve seen mass shootings in places from Switzerland to Serbia. Terrorist bombings have hit India, Turkey and remain endemic to the Middle East. We’ve tended to consider these types of acts — terrorism and mass shootings — as distinct. But recent scholarship suggest this dichotomy may be mistaken, a finding that could have significant impact on our approach to homeland security. Previous theories have conjectured that suicide terrorists (those who carry out politically motivated mass violence intending to die in the process) are not actually suicidal in the psychiatric sense. &#8220;Those who planned and perpetrated the acts of 11 September 2001 would not conceptualise the acts as suicide but instead would perceive them as martyrdom, rationally underpinned by a legitimate struggle in a conflict of national and religious dimensions,&#8221; wrote Harvey Gordon, a forensic psychiatrist specializing in the Middle East, in 2002. But Adam Lankford, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Alabama, recently conducted a comprehensive comparison of 81 suicide terrorists and suicide mass shooters who struck in the U.S. from 1990 through 2010 and concludes that the role of politically motivated martyrdom in terrorists may not be as relevant as previously thought. (MORE: The Boston Bombings: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) “For years, the conventional wisdom has been that suicide terrorists are no more suicidal than the average soldier or terrorist who is committed to the cause and willing to risk his or her life to fight for it,&#8221; Lankford writes.&#8221;These explanations largely reject the relevance of personal problems to the behavior of suicide terrorists, preferring to almost exclusively attribute these attacks to group psychology, organizational dynamics, and/or broader ideological movements.” In fact, Lankford argues, apart from the superficial differences in the crimes they perpetrate, suicide terrorists and mass-homicide perpetrators in the U.S. tend to draw from the same pool of mostly male despondent, enraged, grievance-collecting individuals. It’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31558&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev</media:title>
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		<title>Two Degrees of Separation from a Bomber</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis and Nicholas A. Christakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent a tense hour last Monday checking Facebook and Twitter to account for all 400 of our students at Harvard College, several of whom had been running in the marathon and were close to the blast site. As heads of one of Harvard’s undergraduate residential &#8220;houses,&#8221; news of last Thursday’s MIT shooting also reached us within minutes (because one of our students happened to be on the school’s campus and texted us, “gun fire at MIT; somebody shot — all I know”). Word continued to spread at warp speed as reports of shootings and sirens were shared from the real-time police feed. The social networks through which information flows may seem like a 21st-century phenomenon, but people have always lived their lives embedded in networks, ever since we emerged from the African savannah. And we have always had an astounding ability to cooperate that exists side-by-side with a depressing ability to kill. This past week in Boston, our new online world crystallized both of these age-old features of our humanity. (MORE: The Boston Bombings: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) Over the course of a few hours, we watched a surreal game of Six Degrees of Separation unfold: we learned that our 18- and 20-year-old sons, independently, knew several people who’d hung out in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s house, gone to prom and played sports with him, and knew his teachers. Our students reported similarly eerie, yet banal, connections. A few knew him directly — the storied Cambridge Rindge and Latin School sends plenty of kids to Harvard each year — and one of our colleagues had been the younger Tsarnaev’s coach at one time, which was a particularly horrifying connection insofar as yet another one of our colleagues was the heartbroken sibling of a victim killed in the attack. Many in Cambridge discovered oddly specific but nevertheless tangential links to the suspects. And we all became aware of these perplexing bonds together, well before they appeared in the news, while sheltering in place under the governor’s order. This is what happens<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31604&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boston Bombing: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture of his brother Dzhokhar, some lawmakers began calling for more public cameras of the sort that were so instrumental in their swift apprehension. Representative Peter King (R-N.Y.,) a member of the House Homeland Security and Intelligence committees, told MSNBC that video cameras in public locations are &#8220;a great law enforcement method&#8221; that &#8220;keeps us ahead of the terrorists who are constantly trying to kill us.&#8221; (MORE: Brother&#8217;s Keeper: Did Older Brother Lure Bombing Suspect into Plot?) It&#8217;s a safe bet that there will be more video cameras coming to cities across the United States. London, which was shaken by a subway bombing on July 7, 2007, now has upwards of one million surveillance cameras. So this is a good time to ask if we should put some limits on the government’s all-seeing eye. The answer should be yes. We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public – but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens. (MORE: FBI Will Face Questions Over Past Probe of Suspects) The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on – though it is impossible to know how much. Back in 2006, the New York Civil Liberties Union sent inspectors out to look for street-level surveillance cameras and found nearly 4,500 in Manhattan alone. There are, no doubt, many thousands more today in Manhattan, and countless more in cities and towns and shopping malls across the country. In addition to these government-installed cameras, there are street-facing security cams installed by office complexes, apartment buildings, and retail stores. In the Boston Marathon investigation, law enforcement relied in large part on surveillance video from a Lord &#38; Taylor department store that appeared to show someone dropping off a heavy bag at the bombing site. (Photos taken the old-fashioned way were also important.) (MORE: Bloody Visions: What Would the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31542&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on April 18, 2013, shows Tamerlan, front, in black cap, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in white cap, back right, walking through the crowd before the explosions at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Mass., on April 15, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Behind the Boston Bombings? Some Initial Clues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, after the attack at the Boston Marathon, Boston is a changed city. People are stunned and sad, desperate to know who would attack us and why. The FBI is not ready to tell us much. But there are some clues about what sort of individual or group might be responsible. The type of weapon — a pressure-cooker device — is one important clue. While this kind of bomb has been used around the world, including in the Mumbai attacks of 2006, it was recently promoted in an article titled “How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” in the summer 2010 issue of al-Qaeda’s online magazine Inspire. The Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad followed the recipe, though Shahzad’s bomb would have killed many more people than the relatively small bombs in Boston. (MORE: A Marathon Finisher Remembers How It All Sank In) Who might use such a device? The first possibility would be individuals following al-Qaeda’s recipe, imagining themselves to be furthering its goals by carrying out a “do-it-yourself” attack. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been publishing “open-source jihad” instructions and ideas for how to commit low-level terrorist attacks, and Westerners hoping to participate in the “jihad” are urged to carry it out at home. It’s too risky to travel to Pakistan to get trained; jihadist volunteers are too likely to get caught. Instead, volunteers are urged to carry out their own low-level, leaderless attacks. (MORE: From Jerusalem to Boston: Learning to Live With the Threat of Urban Violence) But leaderless resistance actually has its origins in American antigovernment groups, which is the second possibility. The concept was first introduced in the 1980s in a magazine called Survivalist Alert. It was then popularized by neo-Nazis on websites like Stormfront and later picked up by groups affiliated with al-Qaeda. The purpose of leaderless resistance is to evade law-enforcement detection. If small groups, unaffiliated with the movement’s leaders, could act on their own, the virtual organization would be far less vulnerable. This style of organization has been greatly enhanced by the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31407&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Investigators at the scene on Boylston Street at site of the second bomb explosion, April 16, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>What Bush Got Right On Iraq—and What Obama Can Learn From It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<title>Why We Shouldn&#8217;t Fear Personal Drones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drones, like most robots, are designed for jobs that are “dull, dirty or dangerous.&#8221; We know what that means in a military context — everything from endless “loitering” over combat zones to remote-controlled warfare with the pilots safely in a trailer in Nevada — but soon civilian drones will be flying commonly overhead here at home. What will they be doing? (MORE: Read TIME&#8217;s Cover Story, &#8220;The Rise of the Drones,&#8221; by Lev Grossman) The usual assumption is that it will be police surveillance and general snooping. Interestingly, that’s just what people feared when the computer, which had also been introduced as a military technology, started to be used commercially in the 1960s. The worry then was that computers would be used primarily to spy on us, as an arm of Big Brother. Only decades later, once we all had one, did we figure out that they were better at work and entertainment, communicating with each other and generally being welcome additions to our lives. That’s because we could control them and tailor their use to our own needs, which we did amazingly well. This change is already underway with drones. Personal versions are small, cheap and easy to use. They cost as little as $300 and are GPS-guided fully-autonomous flying robots (my company, 3D Robotics, is one of many making them). They fly themselves, from takeoff to landing, and can even follow the terrain for miles. There are already more in the hands of amateurs than the military, and some of the uses may surprise you. Civilian drones don’t just do the “dull, dirty and dangerous” jobs better; they can also make the expensive ones cheaper. In a world of Google maps, the advantage of aerial views of the world are clear, but satellites and manned aircraft are expensive and the pictures they take are often too far away or too infrequent to be useful. Drones can get better views, more often. And those shots can be of exactly what you want to see — an anytime, anywhere eye in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27960&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Washington Overreacting to Zero Dark Thirty?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Bergen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zero Dark Thirty, the subject of this week&#8217;s TIME cover story, has garnered multiple Oscar nominations, but the movie also has an unprecedented distinction: it is now the subject of a congressional inquiry. Instead of the hushed, well-appointed screening rooms that are their more usual habitat, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal may instead end up on hard wooden chairs being grilled by senators in an over-lit congressional hearing room. That’s because the Hollywood duo gained unusual access to senior officials at the Pentagon and CIA who were deeply involved in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. This access prompted a storm of protests from Republicans such as Rep. Peter King of New York who worried that the resulting movie would be a puff piece for the Obama administration. It is anything but. Once the film was released, the chorus of criticism directed at the movie came not from the right but from those who worried that the film’s lengthy, multiple scenes of the coercive interrogations of a CIA-held al-Qaeda detainee who provided the critical lead that led to bin Laden would give filmgoers the false impression that torture had netted al-Qaeda’s leader. (MORE: The Truth About Torture) In May I published a book about the hunt for bin Laden entitled Manhunt, which was excerpted in this magazine and was turned into a documentary by HBO. As a result, in October, several weeks before Zero Dark Thirty was first released, I was asked to screen an almost-final cut of the movie. I advised Mark Boal that the torture scenes were overdone. While al-Qaeda detainees held by the CIA were certainly abused, they were not beaten into a bloody pulp, as was the case in the almost-final cut. Boal told me that subsequently some torture scenes were “toned down.” (MORE: The Last Days of Osama bin Laden, by Peter Bergen) But there was something else that bothered me when I saw the final cut of the film on the eve of its public release. No matter that Zero Dark Thirty is an excellent movie<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27717&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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