Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to Lead Homeland Security

by Wendy Stackhouse for Video Your Vote    November 20, 2008

 One last Cabinet post appears to be filled tonight.  Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano will be offered the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration.

Governor Napolitano comes to the Department with extensive experience in running successful government bureaucracies, as well as in the Department of Justice and as head of the National Governors Association.  She has also been Attorney General for the State of Arizona and a U.S. Attorney under Clinton.

Gov. Napolitano will replace Michael Chertoff, head of DHS since January, 2005 and the man who presided over the tragically bungled response to Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast in August of that year.  

22 Agencies are part of the Department of Homeland Security:  (via Wikipedia):

• U.S. Customs Service (Treasury)
• U.S. Coast Guard (Transportation)
• U.S. Secret Service (Treasury)
• United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (formerly known as Immigration and Naturalization Service) (Justice)
• United States Federal Protective Service (ICE)
• Transportation Security Administration (Transportation)
• Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (Treasury)
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Agriculture)
• Office for Domestic Preparedness (Justice)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Strategic National Stockpile and the National Disaster Medical System (HHS)
• Nuclear Incident Response Team (Energy)
• Domestic Emergency Support Teams (Justice)
• National Domestic Preparedness Office (FBI)
• CBRN Countermeasures Programs (Energy)
• Environmental Measurements Laboratory (Energy)
• National BW Defense Analysis Center (Defense)
• Plum Island Animal Disease Center (Agriculture)
• Federal Computer Incident Response Center (GSA)
• National Communications System (Defense)
• National Infrastructure Protection Center (FBI)
• Energy Security and Assurance Program (Energy)

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