FOX News/Wall Street Journal: The business of Homeland Security thrives in the two decades since 9/11
After the attacks, federal policies swelled a defense sector that has reshaped U.S. surveillance as well as northern Virginia’s suburbs
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led policy makers to embark on one of the largest spending binges in federal government history, transforming the private sector, the Washington metropolitan area and Americans’ relationship with their government.
Two cabinet departments—the Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security, which was created after the attacks to consolidate a number of existing agencies—saw huge funding increases as Washington geared up to fight two conventional wars, conduct world-wide operations against small, distributed networks of terrorists and harden the home front against future attacks.
The world’s sole superpower in 2001, the U.S. had been cutting military spending for nearly a decade before the terrorist attacks. Military spending as a share of gross domestic product had shrunk to less than a third of its size at the height of the Vietnam War and less than half what it had been in the Reagan years.
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WNU Editor: Publicly the Biden administration is saying that the U.S. is safe even with the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. Will they back this rhetoric by cutting the budgets and programs that Homeland Security are responsible for, and maybe use the Department of Defense money that will no longer be spent on Afghanistan elsewhere?
My gut says no.
In fact I see the Biden administration and Congress not only continuing the the flow of money into Homeland Security and the Defense Department, but also increasing their budgets even more.
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The Department of Homeland Security is like the Environmental Protection agency. Nixon took a bunch of smaller bureaus and other government offices and rolled them up under the EPA and then expanded it some.
The DHS is made up of preexisting agencies, they were rolled up and expanded some.
Organization and visibility matters, but execution is, where it is at.
If DHS were disbanded we would still have Immigration and Border control. Or at least people would still be collecting paychecks and perhaps not much control would be ordered by a Democrat White House.
You kidding me? An unelected bureaucracy through which the president and congress have yet another means to control our everyday lives? Nah, it's here to stay.
DHS Child agencies:
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Federal Emergency Management Agency
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Transportation Security Administration
United States Coast Guard (during times of peace)
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
United States Secret Service
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Federal Protective Service
Citizenship & Immigration Services Ombudsmen
Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office
Management Directorate
Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Office of General Counsel
Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman
Office of Intelligence & Analysis
Office of Legislative Affairs
Office of Operations Coordination
Office of Partnership & Engagement
Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans
Office of Public Affairs
Office of the Inspector General
Privacy Office
Science & Technology Directorate
Maybe you are troll, maybe you are not, but 12:03 tell us which agencies you would get rid of? I kindly provided you a list. BS walks.
You left out about a 100.
You have a better list Dave? I used Wikipedia.
If I were to cut, I would cut Citizenship & Immigration Services Ombudsmen. That is is what a Congress person's staff does. I know, because I used it.
You would have to aggregate the budgets of the individual agencies before DHS and compare it to DHs now. You would also have to compare the budget to the threat level.
The threats are dishonestly categorized by the govt. The FBI lied and counted the Fort Hood Massacre as home grown extremism and not Islamic in nature. But the analysts has letters after their name to buttress their bad reporting.
What? The FBI lies?
Lol
Isn't it crazy that no one trusts the FBI anymore?(disclaimer: I'm not American, but I follow the news here and many other outlets including MSM), and the amount of scandals and crimes and setups and false flags perpetrated by this organisation is just stunning
What again is the difference between the US legal system and the Balkans?
Sure, your mafia and criminals have nicer suits and got their acronyms down, but it's the same thing you see in every country before it's imploding
You either proactively clean house, or you'll succumb to these out of control governmental bodies
1:46: The one person who had the ability and no career to protect is gone. He gave it a pretty good shot, but in the end was overwhelmed by an avalanch of hostility on every front. Don't see anyone like him in the cards right now.
The Evolution of Terrorism Since 9/11
https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/the-evolution-of-terrorism-since-911
Home Grown Violent Extremism (HVE) is a lie. It is a lie promoted by Obama and/or the FBI
Look at the names or religion of the perpetrators. It all circles back to Islam.
So yes, it is a big, fat lie.
Why is the infographic so blurry? So that you take their word for it?
We're still bombing something like 30 countries. Afghanistan was just one of them. DHS ain't downsizing.
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