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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (31712)	6/6/2002 4:53:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here is the WP analysis of the "New Tree, Same Monkeys" proposal from Bush that will air tonight. We will have fun figuring it out the next few days. washingtonpost.com Bush to Propose Security Cabinet Position Major Restructuring Needs Congressional Approval By Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 6, 2002; 12:52 PM President Bush bowed to congressional pressure today and called for a Department of Homeland Security to coordinate intelligence about terrorism and tighten the nation's domestic defenses. Congressional leaders said they expect hearty approval for the department, which would take over the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Border Patrol, the Customs Service and the new agency in charge of airport security, the Transportation Security Administration. Bush will address the nation from the White House at 8 p.m. Eastern time and major networks have agreed to carry the speech. The 29-page White House plan says the new department would realign "the current confusion patchwork of government activities into a single department whose primary mission is to protect our homeland." Bush will ask Congress to approve the idea by the end of the year. The FBI and CIA will keep their current functions but the new department will have an "intelligence and threat analysis" unit to synthesize intelligence from those agencies and others. "The department would merge under one roof the capability to identify and assess current and future threats to the homeland, map those threats against our current vulnerabilities, issue timely warnings, and immediately take or effect appropriate preventive and protective action," the plan says. Bush aides said the new department will add no employees to the federal payroll, but will move into one department the many workers dedicated to civil protection who are scattered through the government. Administration officials said Tom Ridge, who now works in the White House as Bush's homeland security adviser, will be the secretary heading the new department. Bush still will have a separate homeland security adviser. washingtonpost.com