The roster of cabinet-level departments has grown over the decades in response to pressing needs such as Homeland Security in 2002. Is it now time for a Department of Cybersecurity?
Some say a new department is needed to coordinate the nation’s defenses. Others say it would only weaken those defenses.The roster of U.S. cabinet-level departments has grown over the decades in response to one pressing need or another.
Most recently, the Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2002 in response to the attacks on the U.S. of Sept. 11, 2001. Another relative newcomer is the Energy Department, formed in 1977 in the wake of the energy crisis caused by the imposition of an oil embargo on the U.S. earlier in the decade by the Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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