From Deseret News archives:
A look at government reforms as a result of Sept. 11
HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT
Twenty-two disparate agencies and 180,000 employees, including FEMA and the Secret Service, were merged under one roof in March 2003. The department oversees security operations at ports, on airlines and at U.S. borders. It is in charge of the nation's color-coded threat assessment for terrorism. Homeland Security also is the federal point of contact for state and local civilian authorities seeking intelligence or other classified information about threats. Though it was created in response to 9/11, the department shifted its focus from terrorism to "all hazards" shortly before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast last year.
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/FBI
The top priority at the FBI changed from fighting crime to preventing terrorism. Hundreds of intelligence analysts were hired and assigned to FBI field offices, while hundreds of agents were shifted to counterterrorism cases from traditional jobs investigating bank robberies and other crimes. Additionally, the USA Patriot Act, enacted 45 days after the attacks, lowered the wall between intelligence and law enforcement, and relaxed standards for surreptitious surveillance in counterterrorism investigations.
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