Fat Cooks, Small Kitchen
Just my initial reaction to the announcement:
Didn't he already create an office to coordinate the efforts of the various intelligence agencies to strengthen homeland security? Is this now the death knell of that agency? Perhaps this is an attempt to blunt the efforts to make Ridge's position a cabinet post?

Most importantly, isn't the bureaucracy large enough already? Haven't we seen in the intense cover-your-ass game that the FBI and CIA have been playing of late that yet another agency may not be the answer. If this works, that would be great, but if it doesn't, haven't we just created another trough to which information will go and never be analyzed? It all seems like an idea that just won't work and will only make the bloated bureaucracy that much larger. I thought Republicans wanted to make the government smaller.
- posted by levinson @ 6/06/2002 08:20:00 AM