What is Home Land Security and when did they come up with it?

Question

Does anyone know the main reason what Home Land Security is and what it is supposed to be doing? I haven't really heard too much about it in the news. Also, how did it come around and who thought about it?

Answer 1

wow some of you guys are real idiots

maybe the FBI did have watches on some of teh terrorists, butthe fact is that because of teh bleeding heart liberals tehse people have rights even though they are not citizens and we were not allowed to detain them because it would be considered profiling.

Homeland Security was an attempt to streamline some of the government assets we have. It is still too big an agency and should be broken down even more. It was formed in reaction to 9/11/01 by the entire government not just Bush.

It took agency like the US Border Patrol out of teh Dept of Justice, customs out of commerce, the Coast Guard out of Transportation and a few other agency and made them one agency. but what they need to do is make it one agency, we still have people agrueing what their responsibilty is...a lot of no that is not ours, it is someone elses problem. I have worked for 2 of these agency, and they could easily be combined to better tackle the job...both are stillseverely under manned

the Coast Guard has only 30,000 people to patrol the entire coast, plus all the way to South America, and teh Carribean. thye should have at least double that. and stop sending them all over the world to patrol, let them patrol the coast

then the border patrol is finally getting some numbers, now 11,000, but for years it was only 8,000. hell the southern border alone is over 2000 miles, and teh north is probably more so lets say 5000 miles to patrol.and what is that 1 person per mile. now we have to split it into 3 shifts, so that is 1 per 3 miles, then a couple days off a week, so lets say 1 per 4 miles, now they are required to patrol 100 miles inland so that makes it 500,000 square miles, or impossible


the numbers are getting better..and soon we will have control...will the lawyers let us prosecute them..we will see

Answer 2

Our government started this after Sept 11 attacks to help keep our country safe.
Does it work? Not sure but we are spending billions on this program. Much is used for airport security, border securtity, those that log over scrolls of photos of possible terriorits, the FBI and CIA get some, and so do prgrams like CAP (Civil Air Patrol, search and rescue).
Homeland Security is a catch all phrase. Lots of things are lumped under this title and the tried to find one that looked impressive enought to spend lots of tax payer money.
Does the Homeland Security groups really know what they are doing?
No, they are learning as they go. But they have come a long way since the year 2000 due to those with direct experience in keeping America safe. They put a plan together and the training is on-going.

Answer 3

After the intelligence failures became evident post 9/11, there was much debate on how to improve things. The President's proposal (as opposed to what the government janitor says above) was to create a cabinet level position that would act as communications liaison between the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Theoretically, this would remedy the situations where items of concern, say at the FAA, would be readily available to the FBI.

This did not satisfy the Democrats, who were in control of the Senate at that time. They raised a fuss, stating that this was too important of a task to just have a communications officer in charge of. Because of their protests, Bush performed a major flop, abandoning his initial proposal and, with the cooperation of the Senate, created the Department of Homeland Security, an all-encompassing agency which was supposed to consolidate the various agencies under one big umbrella.

In conjunction with this effort, the topic of airport security also was a big item. The Republican proposal was to increase FAA oversight and training requirements for the contract security forces already in place at most airports. This, again, did not satisfy the Democrats insatiable appetites for making everything a big government agency, so the TSA was born, federalizing all airport security in the mistaken notion that doing so would suddenly turn fairly low paid, semi-effective contract security personnel into fairly low paid, super security officers extraordinaire.

If you've been paying attention lately, you'd have noticed that the government is now experimenting with contracting security operations at several airports because the TSA employees had proven no more effective than the old contractors. But they are much more expensive.

So, to sum up, Homeland Security and TSA, technically Bush creations since he signed the bill, are actually constructs of the traditional Democratic desire for large government agencies controlling all facets of our lives.

Answer 4

Hi,

I work for the government and I was actually working for immigration during the switchover. Homeland security was President Dumbasses' attempt to coordinate all of the governments resources so that everyone worked together to combat terrorism. (basically a good example would be that you have two different agencies say Immigration and FBI, well FBI finds out that there is going to be an attack on American soil, and before Department of Homeland security the FBI would deem that information secret and the only way anyone else would know would be based on a need to know basis. Post 9/11 though when one agency finds something out they are suppose to coordinate with other agencies the same information instead of holding it and possibly causing another major incident. So DHS took a lot of separate organizations and made them one big organization that is supposed to be on the same page, but still actually functions just as it did before 9/11 so it's really no help at all. I don't remember the date of the switch exactly, but I believe it took place in 2002, or 2003, but there is an exact date. Look for the start date of Immigration and Customs Enforcement thats what Immigration and Naturalization became after 9/11.

Answer 5

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was founded in November 2002, in response to the terrorist attacks on 9/11.

The theory was that a single department would be better at coordinating all of the separate security agencies that had previously existed independently: INS, Coast Guard, Customs, Border Patrol, Secret Service, Transportation Security, etc.

The goal was to coordinate all federal, state and local emergency response agencies, and streamline the process of coordinating national security and law enforcement.

Answer 6

Homeland Security must be a farce since there are 1200 terrorist groups in 150 cities in the US. The FBI knows this plus they have weapons just like they and were watching most of the terrorists b4 9/11. See: The Muslim Brotherhood, The Project - and decide what you think Homeland Security means.

Answer 7

Homeland security is a blanket idea designed to allow the government to do pretty much what it likes without explanation. (in the name of securing our home land) Pretty clever, eh?

Answer 8

Homeland Security is as big a joke as the war on terror and the war on drugs, not to mention the war in Iraq, and the war in Afghanistan.