Opinion: DHS is more vulnerable to manipulation than other federal law enforcement agencies
Carrie Cordero is the Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law.
This isn’t the first time Trump has tried to bend a federal law enforcement agency to his will. Since he took office, Trump has beat up on the Department of Justice and the FBI in an attempt to derail the Russia investigation and direct officials instead to investigate his political enemies. But even though he managed to push out several high profile figures—notably, FBI director Jim Comey—most of his efforts backfired spectacularly, and the rule of law held.
DHS, with little public attention and in ways its original creators likely never imagined, has grown over the last decade into the nation’s largest federal law enforcement body. Its original legal authorities were geared towards protecting the country from terrorism threats.
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