{"id":12552,"date":"2015-05-22T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2015-05-22T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:30:22","slug":"the-economics-of-setting-a-bounty-on-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-setting-a-bounty-on-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Setting A Bounty On A Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052215_1226_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kathy Gilsinan wrote about the $25 million prize that was available for catching Osama Bin Laden:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States now offers $25 million for Bin Laden&#8217;s successor.<\/li>\n<li>The numbers are determined based on perceived threat and may change if, for example, a terrorist gets promoted or demoted in their organization.<\/li>\n<li>Yet one economist notes that $25 million seems too low when compared to the trillion dollars spent on the Afghanistan invasion.<\/li>\n<li>If instead the United States had offered $500 million or a billion everybody could potentially have been saved a lot of trouble, grief, and money.<\/li>\n<li>Critics note that such a high offer could result in even more false leads that would result in wasted time.<\/li>\n<li>But false leads are the cost of doing business \u2013 and the government seems willing to accept that costs given the tremendous amount of false leads that must be generated by the NSA&#8217;s bulk metadata collection.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover there&#8217;s not much of an incentive to offer false leads \u2013 no money will change hands as a result of it.<\/li>\n<li>Other critics note that the bounty may in fact be too high. $25 million may seem too abstract and potential informants may not appreciate just how much it is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more musings about the subject <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2015\/05\/how-terrorist-bounties-are-calculated\/113194\/?oref=d-skybox\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2015\/05\/how-terrorist-bounties-are-calculated\/113194\/?oref=d-skybox\">Defense One<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Gilsinan wrote about the $25 million prize that was available for catching Osama Bin Laden: The United States now offers $25 million for Bin Laden&#8217;s successor. The numbers are determined based on perceived threat and may change if, for example, a terrorist gets promoted or demoted in their organization. Yet one economist notes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052215_1226_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12555,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions\/12555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}