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Chapter 14: Bureaucracy In A Democracy
What Government Does and Why It Matters
President Bush created the Office of Homeland Security in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, to develop strategies to deal with the threat of terrorism inside the United States. At the end of 2002, Homeland Security was made a cabinet-level department.

Visit the Department of Homeland Security Web site at www.whitehouse.gov/homeland and answer the following questions:
1. What is the mission of the Department of Homeland Security?
2. What action by the president created the Department of Homeland Security?
3. How does the Department of Homeland Security differ from the Department of Justice or other cabinet departments?
4. What is the organizational structure of the Department of Homeland Security?
5. How does the Department of Homeland Security interact with other federal, state, and local governmental entities?
6. Since its creation, the Department of Homeland Security has been off to an inauspicious beginning. In your opinion, which areas of Homeland Security are in need of the most attention and deserve the greatest focus?

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