The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters.
Whereas the Department of Defense is charged with military actions abroad, the Department of Homeland Security works in the civilian sphere to protect the United States within, at, and outside its borders. Its stated goal is to prepare for, prevent, and respond to domestic emergencies, particularly terrorism. On March 1, 2003, DHS absorbed the Immigration and Naturalization Service and assumed its duties. In doing so, it divided the enforcement and services functions into two separate and new agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services. Additionally, the border enforcement functions of the INS, the U.S. Customs Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service were consolidated into a new agency under DHS: U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Federal Protective Service falls under Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
With more than 200,000 employees, DHS is the third largest Cabinet department, after the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy.
The creation of DHS constituted the biggest government reorganization in American history, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency. DHS also constitutes the most diverse merger of federal functions and responsibilities, incorporating 22 government agencies into a single organization.
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News What Civil Rights: DHS Formalizes Military Role in Civilian Cybersecurity
10-29-2010
AntiWar.com
Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano announced that the National Security Agency and the US Cyber Command will be used in civilian cybersecurity matters, insisting it was perfectly appropriate to give the military this role.
News Pennsylvania Homeland Security called coal documentary a security threat
10-28-2010
Rawstory
A 2009 documentary on modern day coal mining is almost as threatening as anarchists and "international jihadists," according to a document uncovered by Discovery Channel's Treehugger website.
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News Towards Martial Law in America: Authority to Deploy Troops Domestically
10-28-2010
globalresearch.ca/
Earlier this month, the United States Coast Guard upheld its self-declared status as a 'special' branch of the military with the ability to prosecute civilians in military tribunals.
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News The Naked Body Scanner May Not Even Catch an Underwear Bomber
10-24-2010
EconomicPolicyJournal.com
In the L.A. Magazine interview, he casually mentions that it is not clear that Abdulmutallab would have been detected, by the Naked Body Scanner, when he was carrying the explosives in his underwear.
News DHS Conducts Nationwide ID Authentication Test For Emergencies
10-24-2010
TerraDaily.com
Northrop Grumman and FEMA recently coordinated a nationwide demonstration showing the ability to deploy a common, interoperable credentialing system that enables electronic ID authentication for government and industry personnel.
News Body Scanners Unveiled at JFK Airport; Janet Napolitano Won't Volunteer
10-24-2010
nydailynews.com/news
When it came to testing the devices - which produce chalky, naked X-ray images of passengers - she turned the floor over to some brave volunteers.
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Feature Article I-10 Checkpoint Dog & Pony Show Terry Bressi
Why then would Border Patrol agents manning a permanent checkpoint in the Southwest United States be more interested in harassing private individuals driving personal cars than well-connected commercial truck drivers representing powerful commercial/
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News Fan with M16s sneaks into Michigan Stadium during big game
10-21-2010
www.myfoxdetroit.com
He didn't just get into the stadium. The man made his way onto the field with his M16s. It was a member of the authorized color guard who noticed the man was not with them and reported the imposter to U of M Police.
News TSA: The Bill of Rights is Dead - All Hail The Rule of Men!
10-18-2010
LewRockwell.com
A pilot for ExpressJet Airlines: I stated that I did indeed have a problem with the infringement of my civil rights and liberty. His reply: "Thats irrelevant."
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Feature Article Indefinite Detention By Border Patrol Agents Inside the Country? Terry Bressi
In late September of this year, a California college student and a friend decided to go on a road trip to California's picturesque Anza-Borrego State Park. Little did they know before leaving on their trip that they would be subjected to arbitrary st
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News DHS scoured social media sites during Obama inauguration for 'items of interest'
10-14-2010
ComputerWorld
An electronic rights advocacy group is expressing concern over what it contends was an overly broad surveillance of social networking sites conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the days leading up to the 2009 inauguration of Presi
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News Newt Gingrich is the "Newt" World Order
10-10-2010
Sharlene Holt, Musicians 4 Freedom
Newt is the New World Order! cried a persistent protester whod positioned himself in the middle of the balcony...."
News The Case of the Mass Honeybee Killer Has a New Prime Suspect
10-08-2010
popsci.com
Thanks to a joint investigation from academics and the Department of Homeland Security, the culprit in the Case of the Honeybee Killer has been found.
News U.S. Plans Law Enforcement 'Surge' On Trains
10-06-2010
ABC News (video)
U.S. authorities plan a law enforcement surge this week along Amtrak routes, an exercise called RailSafe, and the heads of the country's biggest mass transit systems were briefed today on the possible terror threat, all part of what is being called a
News Coming Soon To A Street Near You - Massive DNA Destruction
10-03-2010
Rense.com, DavidIke.com, and Youtube.com
These vans, that look innocuous enough, are carriers of radiation-death-machines that take no quarter, while they are driven through out our neighborhoods radiating pets, children, women, and men, alike, while they are in the privacy of their home...
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News Master's Theses in Homeland Security
10-01-2010
Schneier on Security
This is a list of master's theses from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, this year. - The children are our future. Well I don't know about children getting a masters but at least it's foretells our future.
Andre Campos
News Janet Napolitano: Naked Body Scanners for Airports Worldwide
10-01-2010
InfoWars.com/
Madame Napolitano of the Ministry of the Fatherland plans to take naked body scanners to the next level. She is urging 190 nations to adopt the machines.
News Janet Napolitano Urges "Next Stage" of Airport Screening
09-30-2010
cbsnews.com
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will urge 90 nations to heighten their aviation security measures today to include screening devices that could prevent terrorist from bringing plastic- or powder-based explosives onto the plane, according
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News 'Cyber Storm III' tests US preparedness for cyber attack
09-29-2010
AFP
Brett Lambo, director of DHS's Cyber Exercise Program, stressed "Cyber Storm III," which is expected to last 3 days, is "completely simulated." "We're not attacking any real networks," Lambo said. "We're not injecting any real malware."
News Janet Napolitano Urges "Next Stage" of Airport Screening
09-29-2010
USA Today
The US Homeland Security chief will urge 190 nations to improve aviation security with body scanners and other innovations to stop terrorists from carrying plastic and powdered explosives onto airplanes. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano s
Reference Link Secure Flight Program
Dept. of Homeland Security
Secure Flight is a behind the scenes program that enhances the security of domestic and international commercial air travel through the use of improved watch list matching. By collecting additional passenger data, it will improve the travel
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News Big Sis Tries To Force Body Scanners On Other Countries Amidst Backlash
09-28-2010
prisonplanet.com
DHS engages in desperate bid to adopt legally binding acceptance of dangerous devices as Dubai and Italy terminate their use
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News Witness The Raid on an Anti-War Activists Apartment
09-26-2010
InformationClearingHouse.info
Computers, cell phones, files and records, passports were among items swept up in the early morning raid. This action came a few days after the FBI's Inspector General criticized the FBI for lying to Justice Department about raids and surveillance...
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News Domestic Disturbance: FBI Raids Bring the Terror War Home
09-26-2010
Chris-Floyd.com
I found that, once again, Craig P. Roberts was already on the case. He too had something to say -- everything that I was going to say, in fact, and more. So I'll just let Roberts speak the truth, beginning with his title: "It is Official: The US is a
News Official says security threat harder to tackle
09-23-2010
Reuters
U.S. authorities are having a harder time detecting terrorism threats on American soil, top officials said, more than 9 years after the September 11 attacks thrust the USA into a global struggle with Islamist militancy. Al Qaeda and its affiliates h
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News 5 Surprising Facts About Spying In America
09-22-2010
georgewashington2.blogspot.com/
As Ketcham's article makes clear, these same folks and their predecessors have been been busy dreaming up plans to imprison countless "trouble-making" Americans without trial in case of any real or imagined emergency. What kind of Americans?
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News Group hired to provide intelligence for Pa. tracked array of activists
09-21-2010
Donald Gilliland - The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News
A review of all 137 intelligence bulletins, more than 1,250 pages, revealed that more than half explicitly indicate some form of active tracking of groups in the United States.
"Analysts will continue to monitor the Tea Party movement in the Comm
Richard Deyoung
News Saudi king meets top US, Canadian counter-terror officials
09-20-2010
AFP
Saudi King Abdullah and security czar Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz have held talks with top intelligence and counter-terror officials from the United States and Canada.
John Brennan, assistant to President Obama for homeland security and counter-ter
News Fascists Of Flight: TSA requires reservation 72 hours prior to departure
09-20-2010
Market-ticker.denninger.org/
TSA and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mandate, beginning November 1, all passengers will be required to have Secure Flight Passenger Data (SFPD) in their reservation at least 72 hours prior to departure.
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Headlines: Fascists Of Flight: TSA requires reservation 72 hours prior to departure -- Saudi king meets top US, Canadian counter-terror officials -- Group hired to provide intelligence for Pa. tracked array of activists
-- 5 Surprising Facts About Spying In America -- Official says security threat harder to tackle -- Domestic Disturbance: FBI Raids Bring the Terror War Home -- Witness The Raid on an Anti-War Activists Apartment -- Big Sis Tries To Force Body Scanners On Other Countries Amidst Backlash -- Secure Flight Program -- Janet Napolitano Urges "Next Stage" of Airport Screening -- 'Cyber Storm III' tests US preparedness for cyber attack -- Janet Napolitano Urges "Next Stage" of Airport Screening -- Janet Napolitano: Naked Body Scanners for Airports Worldwide -- Master's Theses in Homeland Security -- Coming Soon To A Street Near You - Massive DNA Destruction -- U.S. Plans Law Enforcement 'Surge' On Trains -- The Southern Poverty Law Center Helping Homeland Security Combat Domestic "Extemism" -- The Case of the Mass Honeybee Killer Has a New Prime Suspect
-- Newt Gingrich is the "Newt" World Order -- DHS scoured social media sites during Obama inauguration for 'items of interest' -- Indefinite Detention By Border Patrol Agents Inside the Country? -- TSA: The Bill of Rights is Dead - All Hail The Rule of Men! -- Fan with M16s sneaks into Michigan Stadium during big game
-- I-10 Checkpoint Dog & Pony Show -- Body Scanners Unveiled at JFK Airport; Janet Napolitano Won't Volunteer -- DHS Conducts Nationwide ID Authentication Test For Emergencies -- The Naked Body Scanner May Not Even Catch an Underwear Bomber -- Towards Martial Law in America: Authority to Deploy Troops Domestically -- Pennsylvania Homeland Security called coal documentary a security threat -- What Civil Rights: DHS Formalizes Military Role in Civilian Cybersecurity --
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