Describe what the Office of the Homeland Security does, and name three of the components of this office.

This week for your online activity, you will be completing a discussion post and reply to at
least 2 classmates. Please choose two of the questions below to answer for your initial
post. You will then respond to two of your classmates posts with relevant and substantial material from the text to support your responses. Please be sure you are properly citing
material from the text book both in text and bibliography style reference at the end of
each post in APA format.

Please respond to two questions of the selections below.

1. Name and describe three different types of terrorist organizations.

2. Describe what the Office of the Homeland Security does, and name three of the
components of this office.

3. Explain how the emergency management role in terrorism in the United States evolved,
citing three specific events that occurred during this timeline.

4. How has funding changed for first responders since September 11th, 2001?

5. What weaknesses within the U.S. government system did the 9/11 Commission
determine were directly responsible for allowing an attack such as occurred on September 11th, 2001, to take place? What types of actions did the commission recommend to
prevent similar events in the future? In 2005, how did the 9/11 Commission rate the efforts of the Federal Government to address the shortfalls in terrorism preparedness outlined in
their original report?

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