Public-Public Partnerships: Cyber Intelligence Coordination Within the Department of Homeland Security

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas outside DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, https://tinyurl.com/2p8p49n5; Public Domain)

The Department of Homeland Security is an expansive agency, responsible for counterterrorism, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, and much more. Because of its broad set of responsibilities, many experts and lawmakers claim that the agency is too widespread, too decentralized, and too unwieldy and that it needs to be dismantled. Fully deconstructing the department would be quite the task …

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