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This 3 page paper discusses the Office of Homeland Security and the Department of Homeland Security, and the advantages and disadvantages of the Office versus the Department. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to previous announcements, he proposed establishing the Department of Homeland Security, the creation of which represents the first major reorganization of the federal government in decades (Daalder et al, 2002).
This brief paper discusses the two agencies, and the advantages and disadvantages of the Office versus the Department. Discussion The Office of Homeland Security, as originally envisioned,
would have coordinated "the executive branchs efforts to detect, prepare for, prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks within the United States" and would have worked with
"executive departments and agencies, state and local governments, and private entities" in this regard (President establishes office of homeland security, 2001). The OHS would have been more of a
coordinator than anything else, working with others to analyze intelligence, assess threats, and prepare responses. When the DHS was established instead, it no longer acted in this way, but
became a monolithic entity, acting on its own. The Department of Homeland Security brings together 22 separate federal agencies under one "umbrella," including some, such as the Coast Guard that
have numerous duties unrelated to security. This is a drawback that didnt arise when the Office was created, since it was much smaller. But the DHS is so
vast that the administration of the agency is of some concern. Because of the "urgency and novelty of the homeland security challenge," the DHS is structured with a "significant degree
of management flexibility" (Daalder, et al, 2002). The perceived need for extreme latitude has led to the creation of the DHS as a sort of "fiefdom" that is answerable
to no one, and that has raised serious questions as to the lack of impartial oversight with regard the way it operates. The Administration asked Congress to "grant the DHS
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