1. The Department of Homeland Security
In the aftermath of September 11th, on November 25th, 2002, President Bush signed the Homeland Security Act, which created the new Department of Homeland Security. ... Some of Ridge's duties include working with 170,000 employees from combined agencies, to strengthen our boarders, provide intelligence analysis and infrastructure protection, improve the use of science and technology to counter weapons of mass destruction, and to create a comprehensive response and recovery division in the event of a national disaster (http://www.dhs.gov). ... Commission on National Security/21st Centu...
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