A colleague and I wrote a 10-year retrospective assessment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2011, calling the organization a “colossal, inefficient boondoogle.” Amazingly, that didn’t land us on the no-fly list, probably because — even then — we weren’t the first, last or only critics of DHS.
Three issues keep DHS struggling:
- a stew of organizational cultures,
- a bungling of personnel management and, most fundamentally,
- an organizational charter that seems to designate DHS as the Department of Everything. But, as Frederick the Great so aptly put it, “he who defends everything defends nothing.”
Previously:
- spendergast: Irony Alert: GSA recycles insane asylum as DHS HQ
- Blog: Inspector General finds DHS 'mismanaged' funds to prepare for Ebola
- DHS Auditor: Agency Has Seriously Mismanaged Its Pandemic Preparedness | Mediaite
- Another GAO report on TSA incompetence and abuse
- Drug Smugglers Beating DHS at Drone War with
- spendergast: DHS IG Report criticizes CBP UAS program
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