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July 15, 2002 Office of Homeland Security
Frank Cilluffo Special Assistant to the President and Adviser for External Affairs Office of Homeland Security The White House (202) 456-1700
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In the second act of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar's wife Portia asks a soothsayer if he knows of some harm that will come to the Roman leader None that I know will be," he replies, "Much that I fear may chance." Soon after, Caesar was assassinated. On Sept. 5, 2001, Frank Cilluffo, then a senior policy analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee A maj or terrorist incident inside our borders would ' undoubtedly put our emergency management response to the test.. . . There s a real danger of being overwhelmed We must recognize that we don't have a comprehensive strategy for countering this threat or the larger challenges of homeland defense." Six days later, Cilluffo looked like a soothsayer after terrorists attacked the Pentagon and World Trade Center The assaults stretched federal, state and local emergency responders to their limits and gave rise to a new homeland security bureaucracy. Cilluffo might deserve credit for coining the term homeland security. He'd been evangelizing for the creation of a security chief position since 1998, when he told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security International Affairs and Criminal Justice that the government should name a commander for "homeland
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