Score One for Obama on National Security

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The Associated Press reports:

President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he is combining White House staffs dealing with international and homeland security, predicting the change will make Americans safer.

Obama also is creating a new office intended to communicate more effectively with other countries about U.S. security policy.

Heritage fellows Jena Baker McNeill and James Jay Carafano wrote on April 9:

President Obama should fold the HSC into the NSC. Doing so would improve interagency policy planning and eliminate gaps between efforts to address transnational security threats at home and overseas. (more…)