Via: Bloomberg:
On Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
resigned to take up a post running California’s university system. With
her departure, there are now 15 vacant positions at the top of the
department. That suggests it would be a particularly humane moment to
shut the whole thing down. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was a
panicked reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks. It owes its continued
existence to a vastly exaggerated assessment of the threat of terrorism.
The department is also responsible for some of the least cost-effective
spending in the U.S. government. It’s time to admit that creating it
was a mistake.
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