[dts32041]

Damn this is scarier than the structure of the KGB and the NKVD.

[goldstategop]

Its not a federal police agency. The FBI remains in the Justice Department.

[Arleigh]

Damn this is scarier than the structure of the KGB and the NKVD.

Agreed! One big secret agency that can not only tap your phones but monitor your travel activities and pry into your health records.

Thanks, Dubya! I feel safer already.

[garyb]

Damn this is scarier than the structure of the KGB and the NKVD

THANK you. The amount of power that is concentrated in one department is positively frightening. If some one thinks this is good now, wait until the next Clinton comes into the White House.

[PatrickHenry]

Damn this is scarier than the structure of the KGB and the NKVD.

These things always start out well-intentioned, like the FBI during prohibition. But that kind of concentrated power will inevitably attract the power-hungry. I think this super-agency should have a sunset provision built into it, so that it will self-destruct after 5 years unless extended for an additional term of 5 years by a 2/3 vote of Congress, and so on. It should be up for automatic elimination every 5 years unless an overwhelming majority of Congress wants to keep it. And even then I'm worried.