Office of Homeland Security facing daunting challenges.

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Office of Homeland Security facing daunting challenges.

The White House Office of Homeland Security has been criticized in recent months for being "just another government bureaucracy," inflexible and lacking innovation.

But that is not the case. The Office of Homeland Security may be a "bureaucracy" in the strictest sense, but it is quite atypical.

One classic problem in government is resistance to change--the inability to recognize new circumstances and to react. Under the leadership of Tom Ridge, however, the OHS has shown openness to novel approaches, as it attempts to develop a strategy for homeland security.

But there are many questions that have yet to be answered.

For example, how does one best organize and coordinate t...

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