From the Bar©
You have to have a subscription to view the full article, but anyone who subscribes to The New Republic, check this out.It's a wrap-up of everything going on with the Department of Homeland Security since it's inception last year.
There's about a page of various DHS officials complaining about the way Customs efficient services have been taken over by the inefficient, bureocratic politicos that used to staff the INS. One of the reasons the INS and Customs were both folded into DHS was to get the INS to follow Customs' better policies and procedures. Now the opposite is happening.
Another of the key justifications for creating the DHS was to create a clearing house that would share info gathered by various police forces. Well, DHS has absolutely _nothing_ on that. They have taken so long that this particular function was sent over to the FBI. And then Rumsfield created a similar group at the Pentagon. So instead of a single, efficient buerocratic structure, we now have three separate departments with overlapping missions. Three.
We don't need to replace Bush with Kerry. We need to replace him with Jack Welsch or Micheal Eisner.
