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 Attorney For Freedom Show with Dave Pratt
06-14-2013
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Our guest today on the Attorney for Freedom Show is the Morning Mayor himself, Dave Pratt. Dave Joins Marc, Mike and Traci as they discuss everything from politics to the Judicial System, to Mexico, Wal-Mart, Costco and everything in between.
News DHS-Funded Exercise Portrays Free America Citizens as Terrorist Cell
06-13-2013
Prison Planet
Branding of Tea Party as violent extremists accelerates
News LAPD & DHS conduct terrorism drill dog & pony show/shoot-out in downtown LA,...locals watch
06-07-2013
The Blaze
Ever see an Old West gunfight re-enactment? Wasn't that COOL!?!? Now see the modern stuff on the streets of L.A.!! Sooooooooo 1984!!
News NSA taps in to user data of Google, Skype and others, secret files reveal
06-07-2013
The Guardian
The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants as part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including
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News Now FBI wants back door to all software
06-06-2013
WND
The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies that it cannot intercept and wants to require that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they desire..
News Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches
06-06-2013
CBS News
U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a travelers laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, otherwise it would prevent the U.S. from detecting child porn
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Feature Article Border Patrol Agents with Personal Agendas.... Terry Bressi
One of the advantages of video recording your compelled encounters with Border Patrol agents at internal suspicionless checkpoints no where near the border they're supposed to be patrolling is the history the videos reveal & the searchable database t
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Headlines: Border Patrol Agents with Personal Agendas.... -- Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches -- Now FBI wants back door to all software -- NSA taps in to user data of Google, Skype and others, secret files reveal -- LAPD & DHS conduct terrorism drill dog & pony show/shoot-out in downtown LA,...locals watch -- DHS-Funded Exercise Portrays Free America Citizens as Terrorist Cell -- Attorney For Freedom Show with Dave Pratt --
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