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Homeland Security
From SourceWatch
The United States Office of Homeland Security was established after the September 11, 2001 events, but was already planned prior to that, as the integration of FEMA (web) and local emergency response activities was well under way in Summer 2001 under supervision of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge resigned that post to take on the role of director of the new agency. There was considerable criticism of it in early days, as it had no clear role, no clear budgetary control, and had difficulty establishing control over FBI, BATF, DEA and other traditionally independent (some would say "out of control") agencies.
Political criticism was also widespread. 2000 Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan said of the Homeland Security mandate to "defend the homeland of the United States" (on Meet the Press) that he "thought that was what The Pentagon was supposed to do. Oh sorry no they're IMPERIAL Security."
Buchanan and Green Party of the United States candidate Ralph Nader, oft-heard critics of the administration, were persistent critics of ties between U.S. corporate entities, government, trade bodies, and other entities that they see as entangling and endangering American citizens in foreign politics for the benefit of investors. Libertarian Party critics have focused more on the effects on civil liberties of the War on Drugs. By contrast the Republican Party and Democratic Party have been far less critical of these trends that led to the unification of the Homeland Security mandate and the initiation of the so-called Global Justice program among several so-called coalition regimes who cooperate fully with the US via JXDD.
Related SourceWatch Resources on Homeland Security
- ANSER Institute for Homeland Security (ANSER, Inc.; Mitretek Systems)
- Brookings Institution Project on Homeland Security
- Ralston Research and Consulting
- Bush administration: Homeland Defense 2001
- Bush administration homeland security
- Center for Civil Force Protection
- Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Center for State Homeland Security
- Center for Strategic and International Studies - Homeland Defense
- The Century Foundation Homeland Security Project
- Clinton administration: Homeland Defense Before 2001
- Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, President's
- Council on Foreign Relations - Homeland Security
- Critical Infrastructure Surety at Sandia National Laboratories
- Dark Winter Exercise
- Defense Production Act of 1950
- Defense Science Board
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Defenselink.net
- Dennis Hastert
- Department of Homeland Security appointments
- Dirty Bomb Scenario
- due process
- Emergency powers legislation: health
- Emerging Infectious Disease
- Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee/Armed Services Committee
- forced quarantine
- Gordon R. England
- Final Report of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security
- Gilmore Commission
- Global Justice and especially the JXDD standards
- Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security
- The Heritage Foundation Homeland Defense Project
- Homeland Defense file will redirect to Homeland Defense Before 2001
- Homeland Defense / Homeland Security Documents (U.S. agencies, etc.)
- Homeland Security: The Origins of the Term
- Homeland Security Act of 2002
- Homeland Security Advisory Council (President George W. Bush's)
- Homeland Security contractors
- Homeland Security Corporation
- Homeland Security drills and exercises
- Homeland Security government agencies and programs
- Homeland Security Industries Association
- Homeland Security Institute
- Homeland Security omits "right-wing" threats
- Homeland Security Publications (from think tanks)
- Homeland Security Schools, Training Courses, and Research
- Homeland Security Strategy Act of 2001
- Homeland Security Ventures
- House Committee on Homeland Security
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Homeland Security Organization
- McLarty: Link to Homeland (Un)-Security
- National Security Programs
- National Security State
- Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Office of Homeland Security (see U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
- Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- Operation Liberty Shield (see Department of Homeland Security)
- Patriot Act I
- Patriot Act II DRAFT
- Patterns of Global Terrorism 2001
- Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
- Project Exile
- The SourceWatch propaganda glossary contains many terms related to Homeland Security
- Raytheon Company
- Report of the National Commission on Terrorism
- Senator Pat Roberts
- Roger Macklin
- S.22: Justice Enhancement and Domestic Security Act of 2003
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
- Silent Vector Exercise
- Southern Research Institute, Homeland Security Research Department
- State of national emergency
- Tom Ridge, Director of the Department of Homeland Security
- Trading With the Enemy Act
- The Task Force on Security in the Information Age / Markle Foundation
- USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
- U.S. Central Command USCENTCOM
- U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (formerly Office of Homeland Security)
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security/July 2005 Revamp
- U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence / Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security (THS)
- U.S. Northern Command USNORTHCOM
- use of force
- Vincent Sollitto
- The Virginia Institute for Defense and Homeland Security
- War Powers Act
- Weapons of mass deception
