There are exceedingly well educated systems analysts at DOD who spend their days working up detailed defense plans. I guess Obama might imagine them useless.
OK where's the relevance? Yes their brilliance in preventing 9/11 and their subsequent capture of bin Laden shows the utility of their efforts, but what about the other 2,599,999? And what about the employees of HUD and Education, and ATF and EPA? Not a single one of them would be missed.