Organizing for Homeland Security: The Homeland Security Council Reconsidered

Abstract

In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush established the Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council (HSC). In his June 2002 proposal for a Department of Homeland Security, President Bush appeared to anticipate the continued operation of both of these entities. However, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which mandated the new department, statutorily rechartered the HSC as an agency within the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Thereafter, the HSC disappeared from the public record, and its status today remains uncertain. Recently, some have called for the merger of the HSC with the National Security Council.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 19, 2008
Accession Number
ADA478828

Entities

People

  • Harold C. Relyea

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • District Of Columbia
  • Emergency Response
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Language
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • President (United States)
  • Public Administration
  • Security
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Immunology