After taking office, Governor McGreevey signed an executive order demanding that New Jersey identify terrorism targets and look at ways to secure them.
This government's national security strategy has identified terrorism, climate change, pandemics and cyber warfare as the tier-one threats we face today.
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.
By identifying terrorism as the common enemy and associating Russia with the common cause of the United States and others to deal with global terrorism, President Putin seems to be attempting to forge a new alliance with the West and with the United States.
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.
State and federal leaders met at the Council of Australian Governments (Coag) on Thursday, where they agreed to give federal and state police real-time access to passport, visa, citizenship and driver's licence images for a wide range of criminal investigations – not just identifying terrorism suspects.
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.
