Homeland (In)security

Of all the hundreds (probably thousands in reality) of stupid moves the Bush administration made...the hurried, haphazard, pointless, and inefficient creation of the Department of Homeland Security has to rank right up there just behind all the random wars they started.

The DHS is right behind the Defense Department in terms of government inefficiency, needless bloat, and just....running around in circles.  I mean, other than making the color orange funny again (at least since Clockwork Orange), what has DHS accomplished?  It is a mishmash of agencies each of whom had their own well-defined responsibilities before they had this inefficient mass of bureaucracy layered on top of them. 

And now, it turns out one of the items that early DHS administrators liked to make bold promises for (and of course demand endless tax funds for) is the "fusion center" concept.  This is a direct outgrowth of the post-9/11 charges that the intelligence was faulty and that the responsible agencies were not talking to each other.  (Aside...so throwing them together to compete for prestige and dollars was supposed to fix this?).  

Recently we have found out that the intelligence was known and available and even shared - some of it as far back as the Clinton administration but politicians largely chose to ignore it or put it aside, hoping it would spontaneously 'go away'.  So, one of the major purposes for DHS fusion centers went "poof".

Now we find out that the fusion centers are worse than unneeded - they are actually worthless and may be detrimental to the overall effort of protecting the US (as well as an impressive sinkhole for tax dollars). 

I wonder if there breathes a politician with the foresight, courage, and love of country to actually propose that the ridiculous caricature that is DHS be disbanded?  

Nahhh...never happen - the name alone is too "feel good" if nothing else.....