Homeland Security — Special Issue

Profiles
By Nancy Ferris and Matthew Weinstock
Over the past 18 months, government agencies have been created and eliminated, expanded and streamlined, all in the name of improving security here at home. In the following pages we describe some of the key players in homeland security today, from the newly created Homeland Security Department as well as other agencies that continue to play critical roles in preventing and responding to terrorist attacks. This list is by no means comprehensive; however, it does provide a sense of the tremendous breadth of experience people across government are bringing to the enormously complex task of improving domestic security.

• Tom Ridge
  Secretary, Homeland Security
  
  
• W. Ralph Basham
  Director, Secret Service
  
  
• J. Cofer Black
  Coordinator for Counterterrorism, State Department
  
  
• Robert Bonner
  Chief, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection
  
  
• Michael Brown
  Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Homeland Security
  
  
• Steven Cooper
  Chief Information Officer, Homeland Security
  
  
• Pasquale D'Amuro
  Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, FBI
  
  
• Gen. Ralph Eberhart
  Commander, Northern Command
  
  
• Gordon England
  Deputy Secretary, Homeland Security
  
  
• Michael Garcia
  Nominee for Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  
  
• Dr. Julie Gerberding
  Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  
• Janet Hale
  Undersecretary for Management, Homeland Security
  
  
• Maura Harty
  Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs
  
  
• Joseph Henderson
  Associate Director, Terrorism Preparedness and Response, CDC
  
  
• Asa Hutchinson
  Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security, Homeland Security
  
  
• Paul McHale
  Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense, DoD
  
  
• Charles McQueary
  Undersecretary for Science and Technology, Homeland Security
  
  
• Larry Mefford
  Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, FBI
  
  
• Andrew Mitchell
  Acting Director, Office for Domestic Preparedness, Homeland Security
  
  
• Patrick Schambach
  Chief Information Officer, Transportation Security Administration