Discussing terror, 9/11 Commission Report

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 An argument is often made against allowing widespread use of
 encryption and generally against widespread effective operations
 security (OPSEC) in the public sector in the interest of
-national security. With access to communications and usage history law
-enforcement and government can quickly discover large amounts of
-information useful in a criminal investigation or in preventing
-criminal activity. Graham{#CTC terrorists} explores the use of
-encryption by terrorists which is often cited in a reason for giving
-governments access to unencrypted Internet communications so that
-suspicious activity can be flagged and investigated in order to
-prevent a terror attack or in order to better respond in the case of
-an attack. Graham describes the extensive use of end to end encryption
-used by terrorists in order to avoid interception by the authorities.
-Due to U.S. usage of intercepted communications to uncover and prevent a
-number of al-Qa'ida plots, the terrorist organisation and other
-terrorist groups have increasingly used encrypted communications (read
-citation from Graham). An significant factor is the use of
-non-mainstreams software in early use of encryption by terrorists,
-including a program that built a wrapper around the popular, secure,
-and open source PGP called \fIMujahedeen secrets\fR. Although now
-terrorists and criminals use widely available, popular, and
-user-friendly software such as the Tails operating system or Telegram
-(Graham citation 28), terrorists organisations have shown an ability
-to make use of more obscure and complicated systems, as well as use
-publicly available source code in order to construct software for
-operatives to use.
+national security, and the prevention of terror. With access to
+communications and usage history governments can gather significant
+information on terrorists and use this intelligence against
+terrorists. It is clear that intelligence plays a significant role in
+counterterrorism. The 9/11 terrorist attacks are seen potentially as a
+phenomenal failure of intelligence as detailed in The 9/11 Commission
+report {#9/11 commission report}, which detailed institutional failures
+and also emphasised the difficulty and importance of intelligence in
+counterterrorism {intelligence and national security}. Graham{#CTC
+terrorists} explores the use of encryption by terrorists which is
+often cited in a reason for giving governments access to unencrypted
+Internet communications so that suspicious activity can be flagged and
+investigated in order to prevent a terror attack or in order to better
+respond in the case of an attack. Graham describes the extensive use
+of end to end encryption used by terrorists in order to avoid
+interception by the authorities. Due to U.S. usage of intercepted
+communications to uncover and prevent a number of al-Qa'ida plots, the
+terrorist organisation and other terrorist groups have increasingly
+used encrypted communications (read citation from Graham). An
+significant factor is the use of non-mainstreams software in early use
+of encryption by terrorists, including a program that built a wrapper
+around the popular, secure, and open source PGP called \fIMujahedeen
+secrets\fR. Although now terrorists and criminals use widely
+available, popular, and user-friendly software such as the Tails
+operating system or Telegram (Graham citation 28), terrorists
+organisations have shown an ability to make use of more obscure and
+complicated systems, as well as use publicly available source code in
+order to construct software for operatives to use.
 
 Although the issue of popular messaging technologies and their support
 for 'end-to-end encryption' is often discussed, the argument that the