The White House has embarked on a full-scale effort to sell the new federal cabinet level Department of Homeland Security. While the Congress does not seem to oppose the creation of the new department, they will no doubt reshape the make up as the project works its way through the system. Once the Congress starts adding and subtracting from what will go into the agency the process will become quite unpredictable. The stated purpose of the new agency would be to be the repository or clearinghouse of all domestic terrorism intelligence, merging some 22 agencies with 170,000 employees. At first blush it would appear the agency would be driven by the US Customs and Secret Service [both from Treasury] and the Transportation Security Agency [from Transportation (DOT)].