Better Federal, Local Ties

The White House last Friday issued an executive order establishing the Homeland Security Partnership Council aimed at creating partnerships between various stakeholders at the federal and local levels including private and non-governmental organizations “to address homeland security challenges.” The council will be chaired by the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. The supporting policy language in the order says that given the “complexities and range of the challenges, we must institutionalize an all-of-nation effort to address the evolving threats to the United States.”