The War on Terror Is Only Evolving

Aug 24, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -36% Moderately Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"At its height, the counterterrorism movement at home involved an expansive and aggressive use of law enforcement and intelligence tools that readily -- often with the assent of Congress and the courts -- tossed aside constitutional protections and reinterpreted laws in ways that privileged American security over rights."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Passed in October 2001, the Patriot Act, for example, downgraded Fourth Amendment protections, enabling law enforcement to conduct mass warrantless surveillance on Americans."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Under President Trump, in particular, DHS (by then, remarkably enough, the country's largest law enforcement agency) refocused its resources on matters that had little or nothing to do with counterterrorism."
Positive
2% Conservative
"As the 20th aiversary of the 9/11 attacks looms, the Biden administration is making it crystal clear that it intends to finally bring the most obvious aspects of that war to a close, no matter the consequences."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"During President Obama's term in office, some of these measures were revised for the better in the Freedom Act."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"As President Biden signals his intention to bring the War on Terror as we know it to an end, the question is: What will remain of it both abroad and at home, no matter what he tries to do?"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"After 20 years of various kinds of failure in which the goals of the War on Terror were never truly attained, the US military, the intelligence community, and the Biden administration are now focused elsewhere."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"It is time, Biden, the fourth War on Terror president, said in April, to end the Forever War."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Eventually, during Donald Trump's last year in office, it was even cited to authorize the drone assassination of a top Iranian general at Baghdad International Airport."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Addressing the Trump administration's misuse of the Department of Justice, for instance, Attorney General Garland did indeed signal his intent to limit any use of it for political purposes."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Still, however much the Biden administration may be pivoting to a new cold war with China in particular, just how long such a pivot lasts remains an open question, especially given the recent Afghan disaster."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"By 2011, following the death of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama admitted that the killing of the head of Al Qaeda would not bring that war to a close."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Kabul has fallen and Joe Biden is being blamed (by congressional Republicans in particular) for America's now almost-20-year disaster in Afghanistan."
Negative
-50% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : At its height, the counterterrorism movement at home involved an expansive and aggressive use of law enforcement and intelligence tools that readily -- often with the assent of Congress and the courts -- tossed aside constitutional protections and reinterpreted laws in ways that privileged American security over rights.
43% : Passed in October 2001, the Patriot Act, for example, downgraded Fourth Amendment protections, enabling law enforcement to conduct mass warrantless surveillance on Americans.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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