The U.S. Department of Justice is under the control of which official?

• A. Secretary of Homeland Security
• B. Director of National Intelligence
• C. U.S. Attorney General
• D. Secretary of Defense

Answer: (C)

Understanding who oversees the federal Department of Justice clarifies the question. The Department of Justice is the government’s primary legal and law enforcement arm, and its head is the U.S. Attorney General. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and chief legal adviser to the President and the entire executive branch, supervising all DOJ components and federal prosecutions. The other offices point to other departments or structures: the Secretary of Homeland Security leads DHS, the Director of National Intelligence heads the intelligence community, and the Secretary of Defense runs the Department of Defense. So the official in charge of the DOJ is the U.S. Attorney General.