4.18.2008

DHS transition planning goes 'deeper than normal'

Is this a hint? - Ed.

The only cabinet-level agency created since Sept. 11 wants to make sure it doesn't get caught flat-footed when a new president takes office next January, so it already has begun transition planning.

The Department of Homeland Security, which President Bush established after the terror attacks, is going through the same process that all of the federal government does every four or eight years, but observers say the prevalence of terror attacks on or around election times has DHS especially on edge.

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