Deck 13: Terrorism and Offenses Against the State

Question 1

What arson attack in 1998 serves as an example of ecoterrorism in the United States?

A)Arson attack at the San Diego Zoo
B)Arson attack on Fort Hood, Texas military base
C)Arson attack against Vail, Colorado ski resort
D)None of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is the term for activities that result from a collaboration between drug traffickers and traditional terrorist groups?

A)Ecoterrorism
B)Narcoterrorism
C)Cyberterrorism
D)Drug terrorism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What form of terrorism can have fewer international components because it involves extremist views on environmental issues and animal rights, making it a fringe-issue form of terrorism?

A)Cyberterrorism
B)Ecoterrorism
C)Narcoterrorism
D)None of the above

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What is the unlawful use of violence by a group or individual with some connection with a foreign power or group?

A)Cyberterrorism
B)Domestic terrorism
C)International terrorism
D)Foreign terrorism

Question 5

What is home-grown terrorism that is carried out by an individual or group based and operating within the United States in furtherance of a political or social objective?

A)International terrorism
B)Cyberterrorism
C)Local terrorism
D)Domestic terrorism

Question 6

What is the term that refers to any activity which is unlawful under the laws of the place where it is committed and which involves highjacking or sabotage, seizing or detaining, and threatening to kill, injure, or continue to detain anyone, a violent attack upon any internationally protected person or group, assassination, the use of WMD, and a threat, attempt, or conspiracy to commit any of these acts?

A)Terrorist activity
B)Criminal activity
C)Gang activity
D)None of the above

Question 7

What is the use of technology, including computers and the Internet, to carry out terroristic attacks?

A)Cyberterrorism
B)Narcoterrorism
C)Domestic terrorism
D)International terrorism

Question 8

What is the act of levying war against the United States or providing aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States?

A)Treason
B)Tyranny
C)Terrorism
D)None of the above

Question 9

What is the act of using unlawful means (sabotage, terrorism, etc.) to accomplish economic or political reform?

A)Criminal sabotage
B)Criminal syndicating
C)Criminal syndicalism
D)None of the above

Question 10

What is the U.S. strategy for combating terrorism, which includes defeat, deny, diminish, and defend?

A)The 4D strategy
B)The Quad D strategy
C)The D strategy
D)None of the above

Question 11

What is advocating, or with knowledge of its contents knowingly publishing, selling, or distributing any document which advocates, or with knowledge of its purpose, knowingly becoming a member of any organization, which advocates the overthrow or reformation of the existing form of government by violence or unlawful means?

A)Treason
B)Sedition
C)Tyranny
D)None of the above

Question 12

What federal legislation defines specific terrorism crimes and penalties?

A)Antiterrorism and Effective Injury Act (AEIA)
B)Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA)
C)Antiterrorism and Effective Defense Act (AEDA)
D)None of the above

Question 13

What U.S. Justice Department category includes aircraft sabotage, weapons of mass destruction, and bombing places of public use?

A)Category II
B)Category I
C)Category III
D)None of the above

Question 14

What offense has a conventional meaning that need not be connected with the criminal law, but is typically damage to property or obstructing preparation for war or national defense?

A)Sabotage
B)Burglary
C)Treason
D)Tyranny

Question 15

What title of the U.S. Patriot Act eliminated the statute of limitations for certain terrorist offenses and put in place new maximum penalties for terrorist offenses?

A)Title IV
B)Title VI
C)Title VII
D)Title VIII

Question 16

What is the name of an ecoterrorist group that is described as an underground movement by autonomous and anonymous individuals who use sabotage and guerilla warfare to stop what it calls the "exploitation and destruction of the natural environment?"

A)Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
B)Earth-Saving Organization (ESO)
C)Planet Liberation Organization (PLO)
D)None of the above

Question 17

What is another term for spying, and occurs when one gathers, transmits, and/or "loses" defense information to injure the United States or the benefit of a foreign power?

A)Treason
B)Sedition
C)Espionage
D)None of the above.

Question 18

What is a very long piece of legislation consisting of 10 parts and over 300 single-spaced pages that addresses America's commitment to intercepting and obstructing terrorism acts in America?

A)The USA Patriot Act
B)The USA Partisan Act
C)The USA Pacifist Act
D)None of the above

Question 19

What penalty (with some exceptions) may accompany the offense of espionage?

A)Ten years in prison
B)Death penalty
C)Five years in prison
D)None of the above

Question 20

One of the modifications of the PATRIOT Act under the Obama administration is the surveillance against a non-U.S. citizen engaged in terrorism who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group, who also may be referred to as what?

A)Lone Wolf
B)Solitary Enemy
C)Lone Activist
D)None of the above

Question 21

Proceedings for deportation of aliens must conform to constitutional requirements, especially due process.

Question 22

An attack against the nation's air traffic control system would not wreak havoc or cause plane collisions because traffic controllers are too professional to allow that to happen.

Question 23

Even though the 9/11 incidents were prime examples of terrorism, there is no single definition of terrorism.

Question 24

Espionage is one offense against the government that does not include the death penalty under any condition.

Question 25

What was the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Barenblatt v. United States concerning Un-American activities and the refusal of Mr. Barenblatt's refusal to testify before Congress concerning his affiliation with the communist party?

A)First Amendment provisions were not transgressed by the Subcommittee's inquiry.
B)First Amendment provisions were transgressed by the Subcommittee's inquiry.
C)Mr.Barenblatt did not fall under the provisions of the First Amendment because he is not a U.S.citizen.
D)None of the above.

Question 26

During a conversation at a party, John made an off-handed comment that he thought the President should be shot. Based on a summary from the U.S. Supreme court John could be convicted for threatening the President.

Question 27

Domestic terrorism may be a local citizen or local group receiving direction from international sources.

Question 28

Treason prosecutions in the United States are quite common, with more than 500 prosecutions annually.

Question 29

The USA PATRIOT Act address all the present terrorism threats and issues and made no changes in past law and practice.

Question 30

In United States v. Rahman et al., a fairly recent case, the Second Circuit heard an appeal involving ten defendants who were acquitted of seditious conspiracy as a part of a plot to conduct urban terrorism.

Question 31

Terrorism is, by far, the least visible and potentially destructive crime against the state.

Question 32

The USA PATRIOT Act was passed on October 26, 2001 by Congress and signed into law immediately the same day by President Bush.

Question 33

The Espionage Act of 1917, now part of the U.S. Code, criminalizes espionage and breaks it into three categories: espionage during peace, espionage during war, and espionage during overseas conflicts.

Question 34

Joseph has been subpoenaed to testify before the U.S. Congress. However, Joseph refuses to obey the lawful order to appear before Congress and testify. What charges may be filed against Joseph?

A)Contempt of Court
B)Contempt of Congress
C)Executive Branch Contempt
D)None of the above

Question 35

According to one official's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, our country is ill prepared to address the problem of narcoterrorism.

Question 36

What two statutes have been used as a means of addressing affronts against government authority or to target individuals who threaten the state?

A)Assault and kidnapping
B)Trespass and disorderly conduct
C)Sexual harassment and sexual assault
D)None of the above

Question 37

Sabotage has a conventional meaning that need not be connected with the criminal law.

Question 38

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a "crude hyperbole, which in light of its context and conditional nature did not constitute a knowing and willful threat," applies to what law?

A)Unlawful verbal abuse
B)Unlawful complicity
C)Threatening the President
D)None of the above

Question 39

The most recent treason indictment was against Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a U.S. citizen turned Al-Qaeda operative.

Question 40

Congress has authority to regulate certain types of conduct that take place beyond the territorial borders of the United States.

Question 41

______________charges may be filed against a person who creates and activates a virus that is designed to stop computer signals to U.S. military smart bombs.

Question 42

Discuss the key provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. How do these provisions contribute to the defeat of terrorism? What is the importance of taggants in combatting terrorism?

Question 43

Sam is a member of a local environmental group that fosters goals to stop alleged destruction of the environment. One night Sam broke into a chemical plant his group targeted for allegedly dumping chemicals into the local lake and set fire to the administration building. ____________ charges may be filed against Sam.

Question 44

__________________ refers to altering the underlying conditions that terrorists use to justify their attacks.

Question 45

Discuss the six characteristics presented by Criminologist Gwynn Nettler. What does each of these characteristics have to do with typical acts of terrorism? Do these characteristics apply to all forms of terrorism? If so, how? If not, why?

Question 46

Compare the two categories of available statutes created by the U.S. Justice Department to aid in classifying and filing charges against terrorist activists. Explain why each offense is placed in a specific classification.

Question 47

While cyberterrorism and narcoterrorism can have a strong international component, this is less true of __________________.

Question 48

____________________ is the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 3.

Question 49

______________ is defined to include four main characteristics: premeditation, political motivation, violence, and committed against noncombatants.

Question 50

Genocide is an offense that falls within ___________________ as established by the U.S. Justice Department.

Question 51

___________________ is typically damage to property or obstructing preparation for war or national defense.

Question 52

On October 26, 2001, Congress took action to empower the Justice Department to respond to terrorism by passing the USA PATRIOT Act. Explain the purpose of this act. What did the act do for centralization? How did the act empower the Central Intelligence Agency? What did the act do for re-defining terrorism? What changes in criminal procedure are attributable to this Act? Highlight the changes to Titles I through X and discuss the improvements created by these changes.

Question 53

The requirement of adding taggants, or chemical markers, to certain explosives during manufacture is one of the key provisions of _________________.

Question 54

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of due process and access to jury trials apply to _______________.

Question 55

The USA PATRIOT Act amended Title 18, Section 3101, of the U.S. Code to authorize courts to issue search warrants that delay notification of an impending search and that can be executed in the absence of the suspect.

Question 56

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism is the full title of ________________________.

Question 57

________________ is home-grown and carried out by an individual or group based and operating within this country.

Question 58

_______________ charges may be filed against a person who taints a U.S. military base's water supply with a controlled substance designed to subdue everyone who drinks the water.

Question 59

Compare domestic terrorism, international terrorism, cyberterrorism, narcoterrorism, and ecoterrorism and explain how terrorist could use these forms of terrorism to hinder or harm U.S. citizens and compromise the integrity of the U.S. government. What countermeasures may the U.S. initiate to defeat each of these forms of terrorism?

Question 60

Achmid is a native Syrian who is a member of the Al-Qaeda group. He has patiently worked his way through the necessary channels to gain a work visa to the United States. After six months, Achmid's contacts in the U.S. completed arrangements for him to receive his U.S. citizenship. With the citizenship in hand, he joins the U.S. Army as a translator for U.S. forces. Because of his knowledge of three different Arabic dialects, Achmid rapidly advances in rank. Within a few years he has already achieved the rank of Major. Throughout the years he secretly copies documents, battle plans, and other top secret information to the Al-Qaeda group. The day of reckoning arrives. The U.S. Army has received 200 new helicopters that have been retrofitted with the latest in technology for combat against the Taliban in Afghanistan. At night, Achmid plants explosives on all of the helicopters. The explosives are set to detonate at 0700. He knows that a test flight of the choppers is scheduled for 0630 with a designated flight time of one hour. At planned, at 0700 all 200 helicopters explode simultaneously. What charges may be filed against Achmid? America can benefit from the talents, expertise, and knowledge, of members of other countries who devote their life to the American way of life. However, how can government entities weed out those bent on destruction of America?