McCaul Announces New Counterterrorism Strategy

Homeland Security Today: On the heels of the fifteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) announced a bipartisan counterterrorism strategy containing 100 policy recommendations and principles for combatting terrorism and protecting the homeland.

The 9/11 attacks changed the way the nation approaches security. According to McCaul’s strategy, A National Strategy to Win the War Against Islamist Terror, under President George W. Bush, the United States made counterterrorism a major priority. However, the Obama Administration has pursued a “narrower counterterrorism strategy” and declared an end to the “global war on terror.”

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