MEGA-UMBRELLA: NEW SECURITY REORGANIZATION

The integration of the domestic security staff with that of the United State's international security staff goes even farther than it first appears. The president is also establishing a "global engagement directorate" that is supposed to communicate more effectively with other countries — the international community — about U.S. security policy.

Obama intends to more effectively use diplomacy, communications, and international aid (monetary aid, or physical aid, as in foreign troops?) to support U.S. national security in the areas of terrorism, cross-border crime, pandemics, natural disasters, nuclear proliferation, and “other threats.”

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Larger Government and more control - Obama merges National and Homeland Security Councils which will mean "new measures" for CyberSecurity

by DefendUSx

May 27, 2009
President Obama announced the merger of the Homeland Security Council with that of the National Security Council...