1. Critique the National Infrastructure Protection Plan in the context of strategic targets. Explain why the plan is or is not effective. Support your answer.
2. Argue whether a bottom-up or top-down approach to creating the National Infrastructure Protection Plan is most suitable with the current setup of the nation's security protections. Support your response.
3. Choose two homeland security agencies at the federal, state, or local level to compare and contrast. Describe how the agencies you chose are alike, how they are different, and areas for improvement.
4. Imagine you are a DHS official. Take a stance on whether or not the Department of Homeland Security is well formed and suggest changes or improvements to the organization's structure.
5. Create an elevator response ( a 30-second speech) illustrating either your support or non-support of President George W. Bush's executive order #13440, Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3, as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. Justify your response.
6. Argue the effectiveness of President Bill Clinton's Executive Order #12938, Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, on counterterrorism and anti-terrorism.
7. Pretend you have the ability to modify the USA PATRIOT Act in any way you want. Describe the change(s) you would make. Support your changes with sound reasoning.
8. From the e-Activity, summarize the law created by the state you chose to research and suggest one modification to or overall criticism of the law. Support your suggestion with sound reasoning.