Bush proposes larger homeland defense

Friday, June 7, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Stung by intelligence failures, President Bush called on Congress Thursday night to remake the government with a terrorist-fighting Department of Homeland Security, warning that "thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us."

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