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Homeland Security

1

noun

  1. the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body responsible for dealing with terrorist threats on American soil

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homeland security

2

noun

  1. precautions taken by the government of a specified country against terrorist attacks

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Homeland Security are on the scene assisting with the investigation, Davis said.

The US State Department and Department of Homeland Security have been contacted for comment.

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Below is a timeline of key observations by local authorities, who also cite their regular interactions with the Federal Protective Service, a Homeland Security division that was at the facility.

The federal affidavit says authorities tapped Nania’s phones as detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department worked with FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agents to unravel drug networks in the harbor area.

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What Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her writer’s room of revanchists don’t get is that only the worst of the worst ever root for Goliath.

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