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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday that, if the military were deployed inside the United States in response to a terrorist attack, his department — not the Pentagon — would exercise overall control. “The Department of Homeland Security has the responsibility under the president’s directives to coordinate the entirety of the response to a terrorist act here in the United States,” Chertoff said on CNN, responding to news reports that the Pentagon has drawn up plans for military action.Full Story