|
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Tuesday released the following statement regarding President Obama’s announcement to re-organize the Homeland and National Security Councils: "I am pleased that, while reorganizing his national security staff, President Obama has decided to maintain the Homeland Security Council as the separate, multi-agency center for policy advice and implementation of matters related to homeland security and to retain the separate position of Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism as his personal adviser on these subjects with direct access to the President. These two presidential decisions should give homeland security the priority and presidential attention they must have to keep the American people safe from the terrorists who carried out an act of war against us on September 11, 2001. I will closely monitor this reorganization to see how this balance and the functioning of the new National Security Staff work in practice.” -30- |
|
Menu
Menu