Reply #45: Hart-Rudman task force used the term. Predates Bushco, final report [View All]

[Garbo 2004]

& recommendations presented to Pres and Congress in Feb 2001 and was ignored. It was about the threat of terrorism and how the US should prepare to deal with it. No one was particularly interested, Bush put it on the back burner, turning it over to Cheney who had more important things (secret energy meetings & stuff) on his "to do" agenda. As I recall the report included a recommendation to reorg gov't and create a Dept of Homeland Security. After Sept 11 Bushco and Congress dusted it off and acted like they just invented the idea.

Some more info on Hart-Rudman report here: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hart-Rudman_Task_Force_on_Homeland_Security