A minimum 2250-word (excluding the separate cover, abstract, and reference pages), APA-style research paper. No more than 25% of the written assignment in this course may be attributed to referenced sources. Your paper must be 75% original thought. Again, your cited work and quotations must not exceed 25%. You must use and cite a minimum of five primary sources (with no more than two being Internet sources) in the text and References page. Dictionaries and encyclopedias are not appropriate or considered adequate as referenced sources. Turnitin originality reports provide the instructor with the word count in addition to the percentage of wording attributable to other sources. Do not cut and paste from other sources.

You must select a research topic from the following list and use your research to relate the topic to exploiting specifically identified weaknesses in transnational terrorist organizations while demonstrating an understanding of the core value of responsible stewardship as it relates to addressing exploitable weaknesses in terrorist organizations:

• Use of the Internet by terrorists
• Use of double agents for counterterrorism
• Use of major intelligence sources by the U.S. intelligence community
• Use of communications intercepts in terrorism investigations
• Use of forensics in terrorism investigations
• Use of covert surveillance in terrorism investigations
• Use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for counterterrorism
• Use of rendition and extraordinary rendition for counterterrorism
• Cultivating and developing informants for terrorism investigations
• Community outreach and counterterrorism
• Evaluating terrorist tactics, techniques, and strategies to identify weaknesses
• Interviewing and interrogating terrorist suspects
• “S” visas and terrorism investigations with multiple case studies provided
• Department of state rewards for justice program with multiple case studies provided