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United States Department of Homeland Security

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a department of the United States Federal Government.

History

22 governmental departments were transferred to the control of the newly-created Department of Homeland Security as of March 1, 2003, including the United States Secret Service.[1]

2020 presidential election

On November 5, 2019, representatives from DHS participated in a counter-terrorism exercise called Operation Blackout, simulating an attack on the 2020 United States presidential election. It was organized by Cybereason, and participants included the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States Secret Service and the law firm Venable.[2]

Organization

Name Position Notes
Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security[3] -

Subsidiaries

  1. Coast Guard joins Homeland Security Department. (2003, February 26). CNN. https://web.archive.org/web/20190603190655/http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/25/homeland.security/index.html?iref=mpstoryview ↩︎

  2. Operation Blackout Summary of Events. (2019, November 5). Cybereason. https://web.archive.org/web/20210701201116/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6548629/Operation-Blackout-Wrap-Up-Report-November-2019.pdf ↩︎

  3. O’Brien, R. D., & Schleifer, T. (2024, July 15). Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Meets With Trump at the R.N.C. The New York Times. https://archive.is/2024.07.16-085244/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/rfk-jr-trump-rnc.html ↩︎