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I believe that CIA should not be moved into the Department of Homeland Security due to many reasons. The most significant factor is that DHS is considered to be a massive agency which deals with several responsibilities by managing more than fifty billion dollars budget with an ambitious list of goals budgets. It has also been observed that DHS is running out of money and it is duplicating the efforts which are already happening in other departments. So, adding the responsibility of such a critical intelligence organization like CIA can create many new challenges for DHS. Moreover, DHS is considered to be responsible for many interagency problems which are suffered by cybersecurity and moving CIA into DHS can increase such complications (Peters, 2018).
As the major role of DHS is to deal with the law enforcement agencies but I believe that duties of local law enforcement agencies and foreign intelligence agencies are relatively different which means that CIA does not have a similar mission in preserving or gathering evidence which is required to investigate and prevent crimes. CIA hold much secret information related to many terrorist organizations, foreign government, and international crime rings. So, in order to save this confidential evidence, CIA should not involve such people in this business who do not have similar job responsibilities (Kahan, 2014).
Despite spending billions of dollars on several exercises of emergency response, DHS is still considered to be not well prepared for handling the responsibility of CIA. It would be a sensible decision for DHS to get out of CIA business as it can result in reducing leadership battles, competition for funding, and conflict of interagency. Hence, CIA should be isolated from DHS and exist in its own department, where it can be segmented into different sub-departments according to their various responsibilities.
References
Peters, J. (2018). Inside the Department of Homeland Security. Enslow Publishing, LLC.
Kahan, J. (2014). “One DHS” Revisited: Can the Next Homeland Security Secretary Unite the Department?. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 11(1), 1-24.
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