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Unveils plan to create the Department of Homeland Security

President Bush released a detailed proposal to reorganize federal agencies and create a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security to centralize U.S. domestic counterterrorism and border-security functions.

Unveils plan to create the Department of Homeland Security

The proposal set in motion the largest federal reorganization since World War II and created the institutional framework for coordinating national homeland security policy and operations.

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