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Obama executive order expands Homeland Security reach into local law enforcement

Posted By admin On October 30, 2012 @ 11:37 am In U.S. News | Comments Disabled

Raven Clabough
New American ^[1]
Oct 30, 2012

President Barack Obama signed ^[2] an executive order Friday that expanded the Department of Homeland Security’s ties to local law enforcement.

The executive order creates a White House Homeland Security Partnership Council and Steering Committee, aimed at fostering local partnerships between federal and private institutions “to address homeland security challenges.”

The council will be chaired by “the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (Chair), or a designee from the National Security Staff.” The Council chair will also chair the Steering Committee.

The executive order comes weeks after a damning Senate report on Homeland Security’s 77 fusion centers, which the Washington Post called ^[3] “pools of ineptitude, waste and civil liberties intrusions.”

Full article here ^[4]

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[1] New American: http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13432-anti-gmo-labeling-campaign-accused-of-fraudulent-claims

[2] signed: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/26/executive-order-establishing-white-house-homeland-security-partnership-c

[3] called: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/dhs-fusion-centers-portrayed-as-pools-of-ineptitude-and-civil-liberties-intrusions/2012/10/02/10014440-0cb1-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html

[4] Full article here: http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/29/obama-executive-order-expands-homeland-security-reach-into-local-law-enforcement/

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