Return to Article: Outgoing Homeland Security official cites need for better planning
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Well, call me simple, but I can only hope that with our up and coming leadership that I finally will get a bigger cubicle. Anyone know of any government studies showing what a GS-13 rates for space when assigned a cubicle?
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I couldn't agree more, but I would go a step further. This whole department was poorly planned from the beginning, by outside "experts" and think-tankers with little or no actual experience in border security, who decided to merge 22 agencies, many with widely diverse missions, together. The U.S. Customs Service, America's oldest law enforcement agency with 214 years of service, honor and tradition, was eliminated, even though Congress passed Homeland Security legislation that actually was supposed to eliminate the dysfunctional INS. These "experts" then threw Customs and INS agents together in ICE, for the stated reason that they often investigated the same crimes, and frequently ran into each other on cases. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Customs and INS agents had very different jobs.
They also separated the agents from the uniformed inspectors, which is like separating detectives from police officers in a traditional police department. This makes absolutely no sense, and in practice actually impedes this nation's security, by creating barriers between CBP and ICE.
To make matters even worse, they threw the Federal Protective Service and Federal Air Marshals into ICE as well, even though what they do has absolutely no connection with Customs or INS investigations.
Finally, they allowed the FBI to take away the successful Customs initiative against terrorist financing, Operation Green Quest, and stood by as the FBI asserted jurisdiction over export investigations, another traditional Customs mission. The Coast Guard is performing vessel searches formerly conducted by Customs, the DEA is seeking to become more of a force in money laundering, and so on, all with no protest from DHS or ICE management.
To sum up, the creation of DHS was a kneejerk reaction to 9/11, and was not well planned or thought out at all. Ironically, DHS has no jurisdiction over terrorism investigations, other than the crumbs thrown to ICE by the FBI. Now that's what I call planning!
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So the assistant secretary for planning quits and tells us we need better planning. Does anyone see the irony? If we had better planning we would not have hired him in the first place. Someone help me to understand why we can't recruit top Pentagon brass who have the planning experience we need, once they retire? Taxpayers pay for top management degrees for these guys so they can go to work at Boeing? What do we get? A manager from a movie company, has anyone seen a French movie? They suck! I'm tired of hearing how difficult it is to manage 180,000 DHS employees. Especially, when half of them are asleep or feeling me up at the airport!
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