Faster than a speeding snail.How quickly has the Bush administration moved to fix the obvious holes in the Homeland Security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States net? You will recall that on 9/11, it seemed that no one was in charge of defending Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. . It took 50 minutes after the first World Trade Center tower was hit before an Air Force fighter reached Washington, which unfortunately happened to be 10 minutes after another plane crashed into the Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering . Three years and nine days later, on September September: see month. 20, 2004, there was this news from the AP: "The Pentagon has established a new military headquarters whose mission is to defend the nation's capital." |
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