""I think the stories are overblown," Chertoff said."
The man is not dealing with the real world. He needs to be retired and replaced by someone who is going to take on the Mexican military when they cross the border.
Bush will never appoint anyone that wants the border secured.
The department needs to be retired. It is nothing but an expensive bureaucracy put in place to usurp authority from the American people. Look at its lineage. Before 9/11 ever happened the Rand Corporation and the CSIS came up with this cabinet level department. When 9/11 occurred all theny needed was the signature of the president to open shop. If that doesn't sound fishy to you, it sure seems odd to me.
The NGOs, Rand and CSIS, of course have been given the lions share of the money to set the department up. This constitutes a public/private partnership that is the antithesis of a free government. The DOH duplicates the role of other cabinet level departments, and the design is such that, if you have been watching, it starts to take over other government offices with elected officials running them to replace them with appointed bureaucrats. This separates them from oversight by the voters and creates an entrenched bureaucracy that empowers the NGOs it uses to fulfill its mission. Not a good thing for a free republic.