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July 15, 2002

Office of Homeland Security

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Frank Cilluffo
Special Assistant to the President and Adviser for
External Affairs
Office of Homeland Security
The White House
(202) 456-1700

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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