Essay We Are Safer Post-9/11

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Fourteen years ago, everyone would remember this day, September 11. After ten years, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, and James Clapper wrote an opinion essay, We’re Safer Post -9/11, and published it on a Website USA Today on September 8, 2011. They want to convince readers to believe the USA is much safer than ever. Maybe someone may not know who Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, and James Clapper are. In 2009, Eric Holder became Attorney General in America, and he is the first African American Attorney General in history (Eric Holder, p.1). Janet Napolitano was secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama (2009-2013) (Janet Napolitano, p.1). And James Clapper is now the fourth Director of National Intelligence (dni.gov). These basic information let us know that they have a very high authority to talk about the improvement after …show more content…

Poladian shows us the real-life situation. The things American has changed in 14 years. Poladian is only an American citizen and one of the reporters in IBTimes. Although he has no authority to say the army in American has been enhanced, he has the authority to say how safe he is and all American citizens are. Comparing to the authors Holder, Janet, and James, although they have authority to say how well they did to improve everything in military, they may have their way, which is bias, to see their “improvement. Furthermore, writers use some example that how America’s security department defended terrorist events and improved in past ten years. Such as the Department of Homeland Security, it has blocked at last 86 terrorist activities. However, they didn’t give us any source to define the credibility of this information, although they may be true. Unlike Poladian’s essay, he provides some sources to help us find more information about the changes in different aspects, such as a quote from psychoanalyst, the change about immigration,

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