Kill them all.
I'm sick of entrenched bureaucrats thinking they rule the world.
I say fire every single one of them and start over.
The situation is both far more grave, and far more interesting, than simply firing the bureaucrats.
On an unrelated subject, the name "John O'Neill" came up, and I did a Google search, stumbling into a tale, or two versions of a tale, I was previously unacquainted with. It seems that there was an FBI agent O'Neill, who was part of the Counterterrorism Unit, a real hands-on sort of guy who got right into the field. O'Neill had identified al-Qaeda as the network, and Osama bin Laden as the hand at its helm, quite early in the game (shortly after the bombings of the embassies in Africa, 1995), and in a single-minded pursuit of this line of inquiry, had identified many of the working connections. He was given little encouragement by the higher-ups in the Department of Justice in the beginning, which included some active suppression from even higher on the chain. His line of inquiry really became divergent after the USS Cole incident in 2000, when he went to Yemen to pursue some leads. The US Ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine, an appointee of the regime of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001", took offense at his pursuit of the investigation in that country, and had him barred from returning after he had uncovered some serious leads. This difficulty, plus some snowballing friction that was building up afterwards, resulted in O'Neill finally resigning from the FBI, and taking a new job as director of security for the World Trade Center, where he started on September 10, 2001. He lasted on the job for a day.
For one version of this story, go to the following link:
http://www.govexec.com/features/0503/HSs4.htm For a second, and much darker interpretation, using all the same factual material, here is a second link:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/KUP206A.html The second version implies that there was an extensive degree of collusion between the Saudi royal family, George H.W. Bush, the regime of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001", and George W. Bush, all covertly supporting the agenda of al-Qaeda. And to many people, this may seem entirely plausible, regardless of the total impossibility of stretching some of the facts to fit.
Oh, yeah, Richard Clarke's name pops up, too. Although he was much less in the loop than he has implied.