Congress
THOMAS House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Committee on the Judiciary House Armed Services Committee (HASC) House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Human Rights Committee on Appropriations Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on the Judiciary Senate Armed Services Committee Senate Foreign Relations Committee Select Committee on Intelligence Committee on Appropriations C-SPAN Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Congressional Research Service (CRS) CRS Reports on National Security-Related Issues Government Accountability Office (GAO) GAO Reports Government Printing Office (GPO) Congressional Hearing Page Federal News Service -- Congressional hearing transcripts online, and searchable database of hearing transcripts

White House
The White House National Security Council Homeland Security Council Office of Management and Budget Office of Personnel Management

Federal Cabinet Departments
Department of State Counterterrorism Coordinator (S/CT) Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) Department of the Treasury Office of Financial Assets Control (OFAC) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) Department of Defense Undersecretary of Defense for Policy National Defense University National Security Agency (NSA) Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) Unified Commands Northern Command (NORTHCOM) Joint Task Force-Civil Support (JTF-CS) Joint Force Headquarters-National Capitol Region (JFHQ-NCR) Central Command European Command Joint Forces Command Pacific Command Southern Command Space Command Special Operations Command Strategic Command Transportation Command Unified Command Plan Army Army War College National Guard Bureau (NGB) US Army Corps of Engineers US Army Medical Research Institute of Infections Diseases (USAMRIID) Navy Navy War College Air Force Marine Corps Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) United States Marshals Service Office of Legal Policy (OLP) Criminal Division Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Department of the Interior Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census Department of Labor Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (OPHEP) Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Institutes for Health (NIH) Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Transportation Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Department of Education Department of Veterans Affairs Department of Homeland Security Preparedness Directorate Science and Technology Directorate Policy Directorate Management Directorate Office of Intelligence and Analysis Office of Operations Coordination Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Secret Service Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Office of the Chief Privacy Officer Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office of the Inspector General Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Homeland Security Advisory Council National Infrastructure Advisory Council Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities

Federal Independent Agencies
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) National Counterproliferation Center (NCPC) National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Counterterrorism Center (CTC) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) United States Postal Service (USPS) General Services Administration (GSA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Federal Reserve System

Judiciary


State Government
State Homeland Security Contacts National Governors Association Center for State Homeland Security

Local Government
US Conference of Mayors

Commissions & Investigations

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission)

9-11 Public Discourse Project (this is a private, not a public, project)

9-11 Investigations (comprehensive list of scores of official commissions and investigations)

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (The WMD Commission)

Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (the Gilmore Commission)

Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (The Deutch Commission)

US Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission)

Organizing for Homeland Security

Michael J. Hillyard. “Organizing for Homeland Security” in Parameters, Spring 2002, US Army War College: Carlisle Barracks, PA, pp. 75-85

Ashton Carter, The Architecture of Government in the Face of Terrorism, 2002.

Waugh, William L., Jr. and Richard T. Sylves. “Organizing the War on Terrorism,” in Public Administration Review, September 2002, 8 pp. (Accessible through USMA Library, Proquest).

Building DHS

GovExec.com

US Congress, S.1534: A Bill to Establish a Department of Homeland Security, introduced by Senator Joe Lieberman, 2001.

White House, Statement of Administration on S.2452 (Senate version of the DHS Bill), September 3, 2002.

Cohen, Richard. E., Siobhan Gorman, and Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. “The Ultimate Turf War” in National Journal, January 4, 2003, 8 pages. (Accessible through USMA Library, Proquest).

DHS: The Road Ahead, Hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security (26 Jan 05).

National Security Architecture

Dr. Frank N. Trager, National Security Act of 1947: It's 30th Anniversary

Jablonsky, David. “The State of the National Security State.” Winter 2002-03. pp. 4-20. (.htm format) (.pdf format)

Interagency Process

Costs of Homeland Security

Office of Management and Budget

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

House Committee on Appropriations

Senate Committee on Appropriations

Federal Homeland Security Grant ProgramsSecuring the Homeland - Strengthening the Nation, the President's Homeland Security Policy and Budget Priorities (this is the booklet that the Office of Homeland Security released to explain the homeland security initiatives in the FY2003 federal budget that the White House retooled and released in the three months following 9-11.

Congressional Research Service, The US Intelligence Budget: A Basic Overview, Sep 2004.

Government Documents

The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned (23 February 2006)