planes waswn into the pentagon in washington, d.c., and a fourth plane crashed in a field near shanksvillesylvania. but the 911 commission concluded that that fourth planes intend to target was either the white house or heretol building. one of the outcomes of the 911 investigation is were was the creation of a new cabinet level department of the federal government. the new department of homeland security. and this chart right here shows was created while the that law was being considered. and it shows all of the many different sections of the federal that had a role to play in the nation's national security and illustrated how spread out those responsibilities were and how little coordination there was between those different federal government entities. so the new department of homeland security was created to bring all of those different pieces of the national security system, all under one person in one leadership. i think it's really important for americans to understand and what happens here in the capitol and what our elected representatives do on our behalf. the historical investig