One of the immediate responses to the assaults by the terrorists on 11th of September, 2001, by the President of United States of America George W Bush was to create the Office of Homeland Security (OHS), on a temporary basis. As the government worked to organize and coordinate U.S. security, and as prominent members of Congress increasingly demanded OHS be made a cabinet-level department of the federal government (with its own budget, accountability, and jurisdiction), Bush agreed to elevate the office. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created on January 23, 2003, when ...