Who came up with the name “Homeland” Security Agency?
The use of the term homeland security is a break from normal labeling conventions – national security would be more consistent with other departments in, for instance, the United States government. Homeland is chosen ostensibly because of its blood and soil connotations. To many, the irony of this is that the United States, as well as Canada, Australia, etc., are not really the ancestral homelands of most of their citizens, as alluded to by a popular T-shirt. ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co… ) In the United States, the concept of “homeland security” extends and recombines responsibilities of much of the executive branch, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Coast Guard, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the former U.S. Customs Service, the Secret Servi
