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 Homeland Security Spied On Peaceful Protestors; Worried Protests Getting News Coverage
05-20-2013
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techdirt
The documents show a Department of Homeland Security obsessed with whether any protests being surveilled receive media attention and coverage. Why media coverage of peaceful demonstrations concerns “homeland security” in any way
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News Scandal: And They Shall Eat Their Own ...
05-18-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Anthony Wile
Commentator Peggy Noonan has written a Wall Street Journal editorial entitled, "This Is No Ordinary Scandal: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government."
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News Financial Privacy Under Fire: DHS Freezes Bitcoin Money Transfers
05-18-2013
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Financial privacy free of government intrusion and interference is dead.
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News Police say 18 victims in New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting included 2 children
05-12-2013
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AP
Police say that two of the 18 people shot in New Orleans during a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade were children.
The wounded included 10 men, six women, a boy and a girl. The children were both 10 years old.
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News Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
05-10-2013
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Wired.com
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
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News DHS Whistleblower Censored from 60 minutes (Video)
05-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Julia Davis, DHS whistleblower, speaks out on how DHS declared her a “Domestic Terrorist” then dispatched a Blackhawk Helicopter SWAT raid on her home because — She was doing her job protecting the border.
After 60 MINUTES interviewed former DHS O
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News Mock DHS News Report Depicts Gun Owners as Terrorists
05-01-2013
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Prison Planet
A mock news report produced by the Department of Homeland Security depicts American gun owners as terrorists in another example of how the federal agency is trying to demonize the Second Amendment while itself stockpiling ammunition.
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News Reps challenge DHS ammo buys, say agency using 1,000 more rounds per person than Army
04-26-2013
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FOX News
Rep. Jason Chaffetz said the Department of Homeland Security is using roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army, as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their "massive" bullet buys.
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News When Homeland Security Theater goes Off-Script
04-26-2013
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http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com
While police in Watertown, Massachusetts closed in on the boat in which 19-year-old terrorist suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had concealed himself, FBI investigators in Chicago were snapping handcuffs on 18-year-old Abdella Ahmed Tounisi as he attempted t
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News When Homeland Security Theater goes Off-Script
04-24-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
While police in Watertown, Massachusetts closed in on the boat in which 19-year-old terrorist suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had concealed himself, FBI investigators in Chicago were snapping handcuffs on 18-year-old Abdella Ahmed Tounisi
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News Bush aide leverages Boston explosion to boost Big Brother
04-22-2013
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http://www.salon.com, By Andrew Leonard
A conservative warhorse exploits the Boston bombings to argue for more government surveillance. He's wrong
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News Flexible Fascism
04-19-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Who says bureaucracy is inflexible? While the Boston police state has ordered all humans indoors and all businesses closed, it has apparently made an emergency exception. Many Dunkin' Donuts are open.
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News CISPAssed! Now With Added DHS!
04-19-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, McWilly
Tragically, the “new” CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) has again passed the House (288-127 vote) and will now graduate to the Senate, where (hopefully) it will be struck down once more.
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News Boston Bombers: Role of CIA in Chechen Terror
04-19-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Islamic terror from Caucasus next phase of plan to undermine our liberty
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News Feds using photo analysis in Boston case
04-18-2013
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hosted.ap.org,By DENISE LAVOIE and ADAM GELLER
Using futuristic photo-analysis tools, federal agents on the Boston Marathon case pressed the search Thursday for one or more potential suspects seen on video and considered releasing the images to enlist the public's help in hunting down the bombers
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News Congrats Gavin Seim! Winner of The Checkpoint Contest
04-15-2013
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Copblock and Checkpoint USA
Seim, a self-described “portraitist, pictorialist, and wrriter” who left with his family from Washington to go on a road trip, recorded his interaction with employees at an internal checkpoint.
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News DHS Explains 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo Purchase
04-03-2013
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CNS News
While it has been previously reported that DHS has solicited the purchase of 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next four to five years, the government agency shows only 263,733,362 rounds in its current inventory.
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News Teenage Railfan Sues Over Unlawful Arrest (and Other Rail News, Including Metrorail Update)
03-28-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Gregory Grice was 16-years-old, when he ventured to a New York train station to take some photos in 2011. But that didn’t stop police from arresting him while calling him a terrorist.
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News BREAKING Huge DHS Military Equipment Movement on Train in AZ March 201.3
03-27-2013
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www.youtube.com
Look what we found out in the middle of the desert between Hackberry and Peach Springs, AZ - Remember those Civilian Assault Vehicles FEMA ordered to keep order among American Citizens... they ordered 2700 of them according to official reports.
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News Homeland Security seeks student hackers to help counter cyberthreats
03-27-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
This will be “hackers for good,” and the DHS currently has a need for about 600 of them, Secretary Napolitano added in remarks Tuesday at a Monitor Breakfast.
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Tristan Shoubt
Another fun political cartoon from Tristan Shoubt pokes fun at the now infamous DHS "Active Shooter Situations" video. To share with friends, link to the host page or email tristan.shoubt@comcast.net for permission.
Entered by: Jefferson Paine
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News Weapons Manufacturer: Big Sis Attempting to Exhaust Ammo Supplies - Video
03-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Bullet buys aimed at drying up market in end run around second amendment
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Headlines: Weapons Manufacturer: Big Sis Attempting to Exhaust Ammo Supplies - Video -- On bringing scissors to a gunfight (cartoon) -- Congressman Vows To End TSA Screening -- Gun Stores Resorting To Bullet “Rationing” -- Homeland Security seeks student hackers to help counter cyberthreats -- BREAKING Huge DHS Military Equipment Movement on Train in AZ March 201.3 -- Teenage Railfan Sues Over Unlawful Arrest (and Other Rail News, Including Metrorail Update) -- DHS Explains 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo Purchase -- Congrats Gavin Seim! Winner of The Checkpoint Contest -- Feds using photo analysis in Boston case -- Boston Bombers: Role of CIA in Chechen Terror -- CISPAssed! Now With Added DHS! -- Flexible Fascism -- Bush aide leverages Boston explosion to boost Big Brother -- When Homeland Security Theater goes Off-Script -- When Homeland Security Theater goes Off-Script -- Reps challenge DHS ammo buys, say agency using 1,000 more rounds per person than Army -- Mock DHS News Report Depicts Gun Owners as Terrorists -- DHS Whistleblower Censored from 60 minutes (Video) -- Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform -- Police say 18 victims in New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting included 2 children -- Financial Privacy Under Fire: DHS Freezes Bitcoin Money Transfers -- Scandal: And They Shall Eat Their Own ... -- Homeland Security Spied On Peaceful Protestors; Worried Protests Getting News Coverage --
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