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Secretary of homeland Security

The United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with
protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. The position was created following the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001. The new department consisted primarily of components transferred from other cabinet departments, such as the Coast Guard, Border
Patrol, Secret Service, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It does not, however, include the FBI or the CIA.

Agendas
Secrecy
The best way to keep people
safe is to deny our enemies informa-
tion. Letting America’s enemies know
too much about our government and
how it works would make it vulnerable
to terrorist threats from within and
without. Even sharing information
with allied countries means the classi-
fied documents eventually work their
way into unsafe hands, so we’re better
off keeping everything under our hat
to begin with. Sharing information
with the press is even worse.