Tracy A. Henke, a native of Moscow Mills, Missouri, was a government official holding held high-level positions in the United States Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. She currently serves as the legislative director for United States Senator Roy Blunt from the State of Missouri. After earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Missouri, Henke joined the Justice Department on June 25, 2001, as principal deputy assistant attorney general (PDAAG) of the Office of Justice Programs, eventually rising to deputy associate attorney general, and then continuing in that position while also being appointed acting assistant attorney general for OJP in January 2005. Prior to serving at DOJ, she was senior policy advisor for U.S. Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri, and before that, she worked for Senator Jack Danforth. On September 5, 2005, President George W. Bush nominated her to be the executive director of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness, Department of Homeland Security, and then recess appointed her to the position on January 4, 2006. Contributions to the USA PATRIOT Act The USA PATRIOT Act, passed in October 2001, removed a great deal of freedom from the directors of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Institute of Justice giving their authority to the assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs, a position to which Henke was Deputy, and then later filled herself. "In a report to Congress on these changes, Ms. Daniels, whose brother, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., is director of the Office of Management and Budget, said there was a need to centralize control over these agencies because of the Sept. 11 attacks. Ms. Henke is a close associate of Mr. [John] Ashcroft and was responsible for inserting language in the USA PATRIOT Act undercutting the two agencies' independence, employees say." The BJS Racial Profiling Report In April 2005, as a major report on traffic stops by police was being completed by Lawrence A. Greenfeld, whom President Bush had named in 2001 "to lead the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mr. Greenfeld's office drafted a news release to announce the findings and submitted it for review to the office of Tracy A. Henke, who was then the acting assistant attorney general who oversaw the statistics branch. The report showed, and the announcement summarized, that the rate at which whites, blacks and Hispanics were stopped