Homeland Security Council

History

On February 23, 2009, the Obama administration released Presidential Study Directive 1. This memorandum ordered a sixty-day interagency review of the White House homeland security and counterterrorism structure. The review recommended that the president merge the staff supporting the Homeland Security Council with the staff supporting the National Security Council. On May 26, 2009, Barack Obama signed the recommendation to merge the Homeland Security Council and National Security Council staffs into one national security staff. On February 10, 2014, President Obama renamed the national security staff the National Security Council (NSC) staff.