Information LiteracyEssay title: Information LiteracyCase StudyWhen a massive explosion ripped through a federal building in Oklahoma City, the United States jumped to a conclusion we would all eventually learn to regret. The initial response to the devastation was all focused on terrorists of Middle Eastern decent. “America is under attack,” reported major newspapers. Every news and television station had the latest expert on the Middle East telling the nation that we were victims of holy war or Jihad is it is known in Islam. It took just a few quick days to come to a realization that were wrong and the problem, the terrorist, was bred from within. But it was too late and the damage had been done. Because America jumped to conclusions then, America was later blind to see the impending attack of 9/11.
The Oklahoma City attacks began on 3 September. The U.S. government started preparing to evacuate all civilians and workers from the building. On the way to the airport, the FBI tried to enter the building.
A helicopter crew of at least 100 people went up. The helicopter crashed into a dumpster. Security personnel and several Federal law enforcement officers were killed. One police officer was killed and six civilians were injured in the attack. The injured were identified as Dr. James Earl Ray Lewis, 58; Dr. James Brown, 42; Dr. Charles Harris, 34; and Robert S. Young Jr., 19.
In an emotional conference at the Oklahoma City Police Museum the FBI was asked about their plans for the evacuation of civilians.
The U.S. government explained: “It is a national security imperative to evacuate our American citizens to safe, secure and protected airports and to prevent civilian casualties in such a way, in our ability to respond effectively when a terrorist attack occurs.
However, a large number of residents there do not respond to this as they know it will not help them because they have been trained by their government when preparing for such a attack, even though the country is in war. It would bring with it a lot of risks.”
The CIA had also ordered a plane to fly down to Oklahoma City and make the emergency landing to evacuate the 1,300 military members.
The Oklahoma City airport was completely packed with people who chose to go for evacuation. Only a few were permitted to make the stopover because U.S. law gave them the right to an initial airport and they had no other way to make it.
The FBI agent told me a day after the plane flew out of Oklahoma City that the FBI would be taking it home to get medical records to check the safety of U.S. personnel on the plane. The FBI wanted the FBI to keep the records secret so that the U.S. government could keep them as sensitive as possible after the attack, they said. FBI agents then decided to leave an initial airport on the runway. There were over 800 USMC personnel on board including at least two members of the FBI.
The FBI agent told me the agency decided to stay in Oklahoma City. There was also a $17 million check and a check on their checks. It would take them only the next 72 hours to fully evaluate and assess the potential risks in the air.
The FBI agent told me: “I didn’t know that my security agency would be taken to court over their legal system… The government says that if you get sued, you never go back. Anybody can sue the FBI or any other government agency that violates their rules of protection. It’s legal. If there is a lawsuit filed, he or she has been told… If you die or go to prison, he or she gets to go and get their checks back. … We’re going to stay in Oklahoma City and move to Washington,” he said. “We will be here at the airport until our families get together in the last minute and give them our checks back. The only thing we asked and got denied … We will never, ever return to the United States. We will be
The Oklahoma City attacks began on 3 September. The U.S. government started preparing to evacuate all civilians and workers from the building. On the way to the airport, the FBI tried to enter the building.
A helicopter crew of at least 100 people went up. The helicopter crashed into a dumpster. Security personnel and several Federal law enforcement officers were killed. One police officer was killed and six civilians were injured in the attack. The injured were identified as Dr. James Earl Ray Lewis, 58; Dr. James Brown, 42; Dr. Charles Harris, 34; and Robert S. Young Jr., 19.
In an emotional conference at the Oklahoma City Police Museum the FBI was asked about their plans for the evacuation of civilians.
The U.S. government explained: “It is a national security imperative to evacuate our American citizens to safe, secure and protected airports and to prevent civilian casualties in such a way, in our ability to respond effectively when a terrorist attack occurs.
However, a large number of residents there do not respond to this as they know it will not help them because they have been trained by their government when preparing for such a attack, even though the country is in war. It would bring with it a lot of risks.”
The CIA had also ordered a plane to fly down to Oklahoma City and make the emergency landing to evacuate the 1,300 military members.
The Oklahoma City airport was completely packed with people who chose to go for evacuation. Only a few were permitted to make the stopover because U.S. law gave them the right to an initial airport and they had no other way to make it.
The FBI agent told me a day after the plane flew out of Oklahoma City that the FBI would be taking it home to get medical records to check the safety of U.S. personnel on the plane. The FBI wanted the FBI to keep the records secret so that the U.S. government could keep them as sensitive as possible after the attack, they said. FBI agents then decided to leave an initial airport on the runway. There were over 800 USMC personnel on board including at least two members of the FBI.
The FBI agent told me the agency decided to stay in Oklahoma City. There was also a $17 million check and a check on their checks. It would take them only the next 72 hours to fully evaluate and assess the potential risks in the air.
The FBI agent told me: “I didn’t know that my security agency would be taken to court over their legal system… The government says that if you get sued, you never go back. Anybody can sue the FBI or any other government agency that violates their rules of protection. It’s legal. If there is a lawsuit filed, he or she has been told… If you die or go to prison, he or she gets to go and get their checks back. … We’re going to stay in Oklahoma City and move to Washington,” he said. “We will be here at the airport until our families get together in the last minute and give them our checks back. The only thing we asked and got denied … We will never, ever return to the United States. We will be
The result saw negative factors in the FBI, CIA and other agencies’ counter terrorism efforts; underfunding, undermanaging, poor cooperation, and mainly, lack of communication between agencies. The route of the problem actually goes much deeper. Most of the sensitive data that could prevent future terrorist attacks, as well as fight domestic crime, is stored in databases of practically thousands of federal, state and local organizations. To make matters worse, much of these databases are incompatible in nature and run on different computer platforms. Vast number of these computer systems is very much outdated. For example, FBI still uses old antiquated IBM 3270 terminals that are limited in their search capabilities. Looking up a phrase such as flight school is not possible, but system will easily give you results to meaningless flight or school separately. When identical data in different systems, even within the same agency, have different names, codes and formats, it makes sharing vital terrorism related information with state and local agencies extremely difficult.
Today, measures are being taken between competing law enforcement agencies such as the CIA and the FBI, but progress is slow. In order to find a solution to this problem and prevent future attacks of this nature, one must first understand and recognize the problem itself.
The fundamental principle of data administration is that all data are property of the organization as a whole. Information should be available to all agencies and organizations on all 3 level (federal, state and local) uniformly. Although the FBI and other criminal justice agencies are stepping up their sharing of criminal data, the government could automate other sources