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Obama Opts Against Fully Merging Homeland-Security, National-Security Councils

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford President Obama announced yesterday a White House reorganization that combines homeland-security and national-security staff yet rejects calls to completely merge the Homeland Security Council (HSC) and National Security Council (NSC). Obama unveiled what he dubbed the White House's "new approach" to counterterrorism and homeland security after he reviewed recommendations from a study he directed in February that evaluated the organization left for him by President Bush. "These decisions reflect the fundamental truth that the challenges of the 21st Century are…

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