United States Homeland Security Council
The Homeland Security Council (HSC) is an entity within the Executive Office of the President of the United States tasked with advising the President on matters relating to Homeland Security. The current Homeland Security Advisor is John Brennan who holds the rank of Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
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“I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
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—Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution (1791)
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Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
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Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
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At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
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