; and (2) assess how to adapt and prioritize such policies, programs, and activities to ensure they employ an appropriate mix of available instruments of national power, comply with the rule of law and respect for civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights, appropriately focus on existing and emerging terrorism risks, and are appropriately balanced relative to the pursuit of other United States interests in an era when the United States faces a diverse range of threats from domestic and international terrorism, a dynamic number of political, economic, and military competitions around the world, and challenges at home. (c) Study areas In carrying out subsection (b), the Commission shall study the following: (1) The evolution of threats to the United States since September 11, 2001, from international and domestic terrorism, including an assessment of potential connections between such threats, and the risks such threats pose relative to other threats to the United States and United States national interests. (2) Major lessons learned from United States counterterrorism objectives, priorities, capabilities, policies, programs, and activities since September 11, 2001, and the relevance of such lessons for ongoing and future counterterrorism objectives, priorities, policies, programs, and activities. (3) Ongoing United States counterterrorism objectives, priorities, capabilities, policies, programs, and activities, including an assessment of the following: (A) Any tradeoffs that exist between them. (B) Their integration, programatically and organizationally, into wider United States foreign and domestic policy. (C) The instruments used to advance counterterrorism objectives and identification of new or modified instruments, if appropriate. (D) Any impacts on civil rights and civil liberties in the United States and internationally recognized human rights abroad. (E) Any impacts on the counterterrorism policies of partner countries. (F) Congressional oversight of such objectives, priorities, capabilities,