PETERS, Katherine Mclntire <br/><br/>
The challenge :  ensuring homeland security will involve a lot more than creating a new Cabinet department 

 -  2002 
<br/><br/> It's probably fair to say there is no such thing as an ideal bureaucratic structure for dealing with terrorism. The threat its amorphous and constantly shifting. One day it's a bomb at an embassy, another day it's passenger jets flying into public buildings, or antrhrax-laced mail causing death and fear across several states. Various commissions and blue-ribbon panels have reached different conclusions about how to effectively organize government to respond to the threat. In one area, though, agreement is unanimous the federal government's existing structure is ill-suited for managing the threats of the 21st century