{"id":53982,"date":"2023-01-24T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T05:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/on-this-day-in-history-jan-24-2003-department-of-homeland-security-established-as-cabinet-agency-53982"},"modified":"2023-01-24T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T05:02:04","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-jan-24-2003-department-of-homeland-security-established-as-cabinet-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/on-this-day-in-history-jan-24-2003-department-of-homeland-security-established-as-cabinet-agency-53982","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history, Jan. 24, 2003, Department of Homeland Security established as Cabinet agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS), a far-reaching federal response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on U.S. soil, began operation as a new Cabinet-level agency on this day in history, Jan. 24, 2003.<\/p>\n

“Our duties are wide-ranging and our goal is clear \u2014 keeping America safe,” the department states online of its mission.<\/p>\n

The creation of DHS enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support amid the fear that followed the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

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It has engendered widespread criticism in recent years from across the political spectrum for giving a bloated federal agency the ability to pry into the lives of everyday Americans.<\/p>\n

In particular, DHS has been found to be at the center of the Biden administration’s<\/a> alleged collusion with tech giants to censor free speech in recent years.<\/p>\n

At the same time DHS was allegedly working to censor everyday Americans, it brazenly shirked its most basic security responsibility: protecting the U.S. border<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Calls have grown in recent months to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas amid the department’s increasing abuses and ineffectiveness.<\/p>\n

DHS is now a bureaucratic behemoth with more than 240,000 employees and a fiscal year 2023 budget of $97 billion<\/a> \u2014 greater than the annual budget of 42 states.<\/p>\n

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A frightened nation called for the creation of an umbrella security agency in the aftermath of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

“We’ve learned that vast oceans no longer protect us from the dangers of a new era,” President George W. Bush said on Jan. 24, 2003, as he led a swearing-in ceremony for Tom Ridge as the first secretary of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

“This government has a responsibility to confront the threat of terror wherever it is found.”<\/p>\n

An Office of Homeland Security was created within the White House on Oct. 8, 2001, just four weeks after the 9\/11 attacks<\/a> savagely killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

“With the passage of the Homeland Security Act by Congress<\/a> in November 2002, the Department of Homeland Security formally came into being as a stand-alone, cabinet-level department to further coordinate and unify national homeland security efforts,” DHS states in its online history.<\/p>\n

Ridge, the governor of Pennsylvania<\/a> on Sept. 11, first took over Homeland Security leadership duties in an advisory role on Sept. 20, 2001.<\/p>\n

He led DHS until Feb. 1, 2005.<\/p>\n

The department combined 22 different federal departments and agencies into a unified organization to better coordinate responses to threats and attacks.<\/p>\n

It became the 15th executive department under the Executive Office<\/a>. It is the third largest among them.<\/p>\n

The Homeland Security Act of November 2002 turned the White House office into the Cabinet-level department known today.<\/p>\n

The act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support: a 295-132 vote in the House and a vote of 90-9 in the Senate.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Bush signed it into law on Nov. 25.<\/p>\n

The Homeland Security Act was one in a long list of bipartisan legislative victories for the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

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The unified response to the terror attacks contradicts the way media and political opponents soon portrayed President Bush as a cowboy “going it alone” \u2014 to cite one incessant criticism that grew increasingly savage in the years that followed.<\/p>\n

The Iraq War Resolution, for example, passed 296-133 in the House and 77-23 in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Then-Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Joe Biden, D-Delaware, all voted in favor of both the Homeland Security Act and the Iraq War Resolution, before becoming vocal critics of the Bush administration.<\/p>\n

Their dissent from the unity of 9\/11 quickly devolved into the deep political divide the nation knows today.<\/p>\n

Opposition to the Homeland Security Act that did not exist in 2002 has grown more vocal in recent years.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps the most tangible and enduring result of the 9\/11 attacks is a large, beleaguered and ill-begotten bureaucracy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,” former White House insider Richard A. Clarke wrote for the Brennan Center in 2021.<\/p>\n

“Enough time has passed since its creation to realize that the department was poorly conceived, and it is not getting appreciably better with age.”<\/p>\n

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The headline of Clarke’s report reads: “A mistake made in panic would be best fixed by starting over.”<\/p>\n

“Several misguided DHS intelligence programs reveal that DHS is overreaching in its efforts to establish an effective role in the Intelligence Community,” writes the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n

“At least one other DHS component, the Federal Protective Service, has spied on peaceful protests and produced and disseminated intelligence reports, despite the fact it has no authorized intelligence mission.”<\/p>\n

DHS has been savaged by Republicans and conservative commentators in recent months.<\/p>\n

The department appears to have colluded with social media giants such as Twitter<\/a> to censor debate over the nation’s response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The department is also accused of leading efforts to suppress news related to business dealings between foreign powers and Hunter Biden, President Biden’s disgraced son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/this-day-history-jan-24-2003-department-homeland-security-established-cabinet <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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