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Legal Definitions of Terrorism
Classic Typology of Terrorism
 
 
 
 
 
Terrorists
Are Not
Dummies
 
 
Marie Hallion, PhD.
Judith Vandegriff, M.A.
©Vandegriff Research, 2014
 
United States Legal Definitions of Terrorism –
US State Department definitions are based on US Code and are accepted by the US legal community as enforceable definitions.
Terrorism: According to the US legal Code, the term terrorism means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.  Involves groups operating in and targeting the United States without foreign direction.
 
International Terrorism: Groups that operate primarily across international borders and/or have foreign connections. Foreign Intelligence surveillance Act (FISA) defines International Terrorism the same way replacing primarily with totally.
22 USC, Chapter 38, Section 2656f.
 
Transnational Terrorism: Violent acts intended to affect civilian populations or governments and occurring mostly outside the United States or transcending international boundaries.
18 USC, Chapter 113B, Section 2331. For the purposes of the US Code Chapter 113B of the Code, entitled “Terrorism”:
 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice.
The FBI divides terrorism into 2 categories:
Domestic – involving groups operating in and targeting the United States without foreign direction;
International – groups that operate across international borders and/or have foreign connections.
 
Definition of Terrorism: The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
 
FBI Policy and Guidelines: FBI Denver Division: Counterterrorism. 12/2013. Retrieved from the web, 1/1/2014.
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FBI Intelligence Defined
Simply defined, intelligence is information that has been analyzed and refined so that it is useful to policymakers in making decisions—specifically, decisions about potential threats to our national security.
The FBI and the other organizations that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community use the term “intelligence” in three different ways:
 
1. Intelligence is a product that consists of information that has been refined to meet the needs of policymakers.
2. Intelligence is also a process through which that information is identified, collected, and analyzed.  3. And intelligence refers to both the individual organizations that shape raw data into a finished intelligence product for the benefit of decision makers and the larger community of these organizations.
 
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/intelligence/defined