Federal Agencies & Homeland Security
This federal agency was given responsibility for developing and implementing a system to screen, inspect, or otherwise ensure the security of cargo transported aboard aircraft.
What is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
This is the most frequent and widespread disaster in the United States.
What are floods?
According to the material, these weapons are identified as the easiest to obtain.
What are explosives?
This is an executive order issued by the President that establishes an action or change in the structure or function of government.
What is a Presidential Directive?
This Act's principal focus was to provide law enforcement with authorities to collect information on suspected terrorists and combat terrorism.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
In disaster situations, this federal agency is primarily concerned with the release or threatened release of oil, radioactive materials, or hazardous chemicals.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
This hazard strikes with little to no warning and can reach peak levels within only a few minutes.
What is a flash flood?
This event was the first large-scale terrorist attack on American soil identified in the material.
What is the bombing of the World Trade Center?
This Homeland Security Presidential Directive created the Homeland Security Advisory System.
What is HSPD-3?
This PATRIOT Act provision expanded surveillance capabilities, including the use of these types of wiretaps.
What are roving wiretaps?
This federal agency is tasked with developing international allies in the fight against terrorism.
What is the Department of State?
n an attack involving combined hazards, the effects of the individual components generally do this.
What is increase their effects?
This 1995 attack first raised major concerns about America's preparedness for terrorism events.
What was the Oklahoma City bombing?
This Homeland Security Presidential Directive established the public health and medical preparedness strategy
What is HSPD-21?
This provision expanded government access to these types of information.
What are business and other records?
This individual became the first Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Who is Governor Tom Ridge?
These five broad types of hazards can be studied as major threats requiring emergency preparedness and response.
What are natural, technological, human-caused, biological, and chemical/radiological hazards?
This 1993 attack led Congress to pass legislation that President Clinton subsequently signed in response.
What was the bombing of the World Trade Center?
HSPD stands for this.
What is Homeland Security Presidential Directive?
These are the five basic homeland security missions identified in the 2014 QHSR.
What are Prevent Terrorism/Enhance Security; Secure/Manage Borders; Enforce/Administer Immigration Laws; Safeguard/Secure Cyberspace; and Strengthen National Preparedness and Resilience?
President Carter's Reorganization Plan Number 3 consolidated federal emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities into this agency.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
Identify and explain five different types of hazards.
What are Floods, Tornado, Earthquake, Wild fire, tsunami
This law was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in response to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
What is the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994?
This type of presidential directive was used to establish specific homeland security policies and actions.
What is a Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)?
According to DHS, what are the 3 concepts that are the foundation for a comprehensive approach to homeland security?
Security: Protect the United States and its people, vital interests, and way of life;
Resilience: Foster individual, community, and system robustness, adaptability, and capacity for rapid recovery; and
Customs and Exchange: Expedite and enforce lawful trade, travel, and immigration.