U.S. Homeland Security: A Reference HandbookHoward Ball, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Howard Ball ABC-CLIO, 2005 - 235 pages A legal scholar details the creation and function of the Department of Homeland Security, placing it in historical context.
From the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts to the present, the government has aggressively discharged its duty to ensure domestic tranquility, including jailing dissidents and forcing Japanese American citizens into internment camps. In this book, a leading legal scholar explains in detail the present federal actions and places them in historical context.
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Contents
A Brief History of Domestic Security | 1 |
Constitutional Foundations | 3 |
Domestic Security Issues 17892005 | 6 |
The Al Qaeda Attacks of September 11 2001 | 13 |
Immediate Responses by the Bush Administration | 16 |
Enhancing Domestic Security Against Terrorism | 17 |
International Money Laundering Abatement and AntiTerrorist Financing Act of 2001 Title | 18 |
Providing for Victims of Terrorism Public Safety Officers and Their Families | 19 |
Maritime Cargo Container and Port Security | 58 |
Airport Security | 60 |
Border Patrol Security | 63 |
PrivateSector Security Problems | 66 |
State and Local Government First Responders Problems | 70 |
Some Proposed Solutions | 73 |
Chronology | 81 |
Biographical Profiles Top Leadership in the US Department of Homeland Security | 91 |
Miscellaneous | 20 |
Executive Order to Establish the Office of Homeland Security | 24 |
Creating a CabinetLevel Department of Homeland Security | 27 |
Calls for Creation of a Department of Homeland Security | 28 |
Politics in the Creation of the DHS | 33 |
The Department of Homeland Security Act | 38 |
Problems Facing the DHS and Proposed Solutions | 45 |
Problems Confronting Homeland Security | 47 |
DHS Problems | 48 |
Budget and Funding Problems | 52 |
Too Many Congressional Committees | 55 |
The Intelligence Information Sharing Dilemma | 56 |
Others Involved in the Creation of the US DHS | 111 |
Documents | 117 |
Presidential Message to the Congress of the United States on the Need to Create a Department of Homeland Security June 18 2002 | 125 |
Congressional Summary of DHS Act of 2002 Public Law 107296 November 25 2002 | 132 |
Testimony The Nomination of The Honorable Tom Ridge to Be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security before the US Senate Committee ... | 167 |
Protecting the Homeland Lessons from Prior Governmental Reorganizations National Academy of Public Administration April 2003 | 178 |
Directory of Organizations | 193 |
Nongovernmental | 199 |
Print and Nonprint Resources | 207 |
Index | 219 |
About the Author | 235 |