Dear homer,
re: “Homeland Security’s function needs to be assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Too many ABC agencies that overlap. “
BEFORE 9/11 and the rollercoaster over citizens’ rights called The Patriot Act, which began the history of the lovely D.H.S., the F.B.I. DID do the work of protecting the home soil, and the C.I.A. DID do its work, outside the national borders.
The initial hiring reports of the lovely D.H.S., and in their application forms, they were directed to hire those who have “achieved” their G.E.D., instead of just hiring normal and natural as it has been for many years, high school GRADUATES.
So that allowed the knuckle-draggers that could not discern the correct answer to the military drill instructors’ barked question of: “Do you liquor, or do you (rhyming word)?”
Give a moron a place in employment of authority, and it will always come out bad. Ask the German Nazis.
Yes, the D.H.S. MUST BE DISBANDED, and the original spheres of authority between the two agencies restored, but with the interconnection for data shared when an offender crosses the border, with the correct handoff.
During WW2, the F.B.I. did ALL the counter-espionage work, and did it well. The O.S.S., Grandaddy of the C.I.A., did all the stir-ups overseas. (I suggest you look up the history of the late actor Sterling Hayden as an example.)
But what would Jeh Johnson do if this went back to the rightful agency, the BFI?
Youse gots to have jobs with pensions and benefits for the bruthas. Don’t you know?
Your post is excellent and I am familiar with the background of the late actor Sterling Hayden.