The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
Quotes About Intelligence
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I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
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Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign...
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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't...
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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an...
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There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do...
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Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom...
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In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to...
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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very...
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I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.