HSPI Contact: Daniel Kaniewski (202) 994-7890
The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) today released The Homeland Security Council: Considerations for the Future.
The report is the product of a bipartisan Task Force composed of former senior federal officials, practitioners at the state and local levels, and subject matter experts in the area of homeland security policymaking. Co-chaired by HSPI Director Frank Cilluffo and Deputy Director Daniel Kaniewski, the Task Force identified and reviewed arguments for and against merging the Homeland Security Council and National Security Council, and also assessed crucial factors that merit consideration whether or not there is a merger.
“As President Obama and his advisors strive to determine how best to manage policy in this area, the Task Force report offers the essential insights of many who have long studied and served on these councils,” Cilluffo said. “Our hope is that this report contributes to the debate by identifying challenges and opportunities that may lie ahead.”
Kaniewski added, “Our goal was to have a diversity of views inform our study. This multi-perspective and multi-disciplinary approach is the hallmark of this report, which differentiates it from other works on the subject.”
Three of the task force members, Frances Fragos Townsend, Kenneth Wainstein, and Dr. Bruce Hoffman are scheduled to testify on this subject tomorrow before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security.
The report can be downloaded from the HSPI website, http://homelandsecurity.gwu.edu/
Task Force on the Future of the Homeland Security Council
Task Force Co-Chairs
Frank Cilluffo
Director
Homeland Security Policy Institute
Daniel Kaniewski
Deputy Director
Homeland Security Policy Institute
Task Force Members
Gordon Adams
Former Associate Director for National
Security and International Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
Joel Bagnal
Former Deputy Assistant to the
President for Homeland Security
Matthew Bettenhausen
Homeland Security Advisor to
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Director of the California
Office of Homeland Security
Michael Bopp**
Former Associate Director,
Office of Management and Budget
James Jay Carafano**
Senior Research Fellow,
Heritage Foundation
P.J. Crowley
Senior Fellow and Director of Homeland Security,
Center for American Progress
Brandon Declet** (Ex Officio)
Counsel, Committee on Homeland
Security, U.S. House of Representatives
Michael Downing**
Deputy Chief
Los Angeles Police Department
Clark Kent Ervin
Former Inspector General
Department of Homeland Security
Leon Fuerth
Former Assistant to the Vice President
for National Security Affairs
Bruce Hoffman*
Professor
School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Phillip Lago
Former Executive Secretary
National Security Council
Gordon Lederman**
Director of Legal Affairs
Project on National Security Reform
Kenneth Rapuano
Former Deputy Assistant to the
President for Homeland Security
Charles Robb
Former U.S. Senator and
Former Governor of Virginia
Adam Thiel
Chief
Alexandria, Virginia Fire Department
Frances Fragos Townsend
Former Assistant to the
President for Homeland
Security and Counterterrorism
David Trulio**
Former Special Assistant to the
President and Executive Secretary
Homeland Security Council
Jim Turner*
Former Member of Congress
Kenneth Wainstein
Former Assistant to the
President for Homeland
Security and Counterterrorism
* Homeland Security Policy Institute Steering Committee Member.
** Homeland Security Policy Institute Senior Fellow, 2009.
Task Force Staff
Sharon Cardash
Associate Director
Homeland Security Policy Institute
Aaron Resnick
Policy Analyst
Homeland Security Policy Institute
