After 9/11, money flowed into the newly created Department of Homeland Security. But from its inception, the department has struggled to tame bureaucratic disorganization, mismanagement and waste.
This document library contains nearly 2,000 internal audits and government reports from the past 10 years completed by the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Research Service and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General. They highlight problems facing the still-fledgling department.
Search the library to find how your area has handled federal homeland security grants, how prepared the government is for the next major catastrophe and where security gaps still exist that could leave the United States vulnerable to future attacks.