Transforming homeland security: The creation of DHS (chart)
Wednesday - 9/7/2011, 7:22am EDT
For DHS, which absorbed 22 agencies and offices from 12 different departments and brought some 200,000 employees all under one roof, so to speak, it wasn't always a seamless transition.
Some employees decried the loss of their individuality as once-independent agencies were brought under the DHS banner. Others denounced what they saw as the creation of a huge, cumbersome bureaucracy.
However, defenders of the agency point to the lack of an attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 as evidence that DHS has worked.
The chart below shows the various agencies and offices that were absorbed by DHS under the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
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