Homeland insecurities
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 7:36PM ■"Homeland Security Wrestles With Revamp: Big Changes Appear on Hold as Chertoff Tries to Trim Bureaucracy, Mold Counterterror Force," by Robert Block, Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2005, p. A4.
DHS is, like, less than five years old and already it needs to be revamped. Don't you just love it?
One-hundred-and-eighty-thousand workers and counting, and it's arguable that DHS's creation has done nothing whatsoever to improve our national security against terrorist attacks. You can say, "But none have happened since 9/11," but I'll reply, "That's because we took the offensive overseas and now have created new, distant centers of gravity for that fight."
You can tell how meaningless DHS is by how mired it is in its own bureaucratic turf wars, not to mention that it "lacks a structure for strategic thinking and policy making," according to a joint Heritage Foundation and Center for Strategic and International Studies report that's credited with triggering the latest hot air about "rethinking" DHS.
My favorite proposal? DHS needs an "intell czar" to interface with the US Government's "intell czar," the newly created Director of National Intelligence. Yes, yes, another czar. When in doubt, create a czar!
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