Problem Statement There is no doubt that the Department of Homeland security plays a major role in protecting America against potential threats. Congress allocates a huge budget for the maintenance of its physical and human resources. The department has a total of 240,000 employees making it the third-largest federal department with an annual budget of USD 50 billion (Napolito, 2012). The department which began its operations in 2003 has focused primarily on controlling terrorism and dealing with other key security issues such as border security, transport security (aviation), cyber security and emergency response. The department has a total of 1000 products that are still growing and that are meant to cater to these issues. Despite all that DHS (Department of Homeland Security) has achieved, there is more internal restructuring that remains to be done to ensure that existing gaps and weaknesses are eliminated. In this regard, DHS efforts to improve its potential could be greatly hampered by certain individual rights and freedoms that terrorists could take advantage of. It is therefore imperative for the congress and the president to be aware of such an issue and come up with appropriate measures to help DHS in its noble operations. So far, DHS has accomplished a lot in terms of formulating strategic and operational plans. These include the national response framework that lays down the guidelines for responding to disasters and the homeland security framework. The department has also been instrumental in securing airports by highly trained federal screening workforce across all airports in the country. Moreover, the efficiency of the U.S. Computer emergency Readiness Team has been enhanced through the creation of new programs and expansion of existing offices (Napolito, 2012). Such feats are noteworthy considering that the department has had other missions to attend to. Moreover, it did not take long for the department to transform itself into a fully-fledged department. However, the management challenges of DHS make its evolutionary process a difficult one considering that it has a lot of work that is yet to be done. Hence a balance must be created between the need for a smooth and efficient transformation and the risk of possible erosion of constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals. In all-purpose and intent, constitutional rights and freedoms of an individual should not be allowed to undermine national security. Care should be taken not to undermine the rule of democracy when considering the extent of privileged access to information that DHS should be granted. This is only one aspect of individual rights and freedoms; the constitutional right to information. It becomes difficult for DHS to transform quickly given the bureaucratic process involved in obtaining a judicial clarification of some of the rights that are entrenched in the constitution. Without compelling justification and sound theoretical reasoning, no basic right can be entrenched in the constitution (Dawn, 2012). The freedom of information is therefore a basic right that can potentially hinder the agency from carrying out its duties effectively. This is because terrorism is taking on different faces every day and disclosure or non-disclosure of some of the information ca