The threats it identifies – terrorism, nuclear proliferation, economic disruptions, climate change, cyber security, international crime and disease pandemics – are certainly shared by everyone.
After taking office, Governor McGreevey signed an executive order demanding that New Jersey identify terrorism targets and look at ways to secure them.
President Bush has wisely eschewed identifying terrorism with Islam as a whole and been careful to stress that Islam as such is not at fault.
The leaks also revealed how the Obama administration has put in place a large Internet surveillance operation to identify terrorism threats.
Each group sued for the records under the Freedom of Information Act, and both say the operation showed that the government was using ethnic profiling to identify terrorism suspects.
Liberals will protest, also with cause, that, in identifying terrorism as the "biggest direct threat to America at home and abroad," Obama was recommitting the country to an unending and ever-expanding covert war one in which it is tough even to define what would constitute an ultimate victory.
But in recent weeks, senior Democrats as well as a few Republicans have begun to voice increased skepticism about whether the F.B.I. has made enough progress in its ability to collect and analyze intelligence, identify terrorism suspects and disrupt possible plots.
After a bruising battle within the Coalition over a so-called "snooper's charter", new proposals on allowing police and security agencies the powers to identify terrorism suspects using online data held by internet service providers have been backed by the Liberal Democrats.
And if you're talking about the very hard, very editorial problem of content moderation, identifying terrorism is actually a relatively narrow challenge.
There are numerous stories of algorithms wrongly identifying terrorism suspects at airports.
