[Pistias]

Tonight, I propose a permanent Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security to unite essential agencies that must work more closely together: Among them, the Coast Guard, the Border Patrol, the Customs Service, Immigration officials, the Transportation Security Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

A powerful organization--and in an Emergency, more powerful than the Executive and the Legislature, while independent of the Judiciary. The man at the head of this operation must be trustworthy, indeed, to be the commander of such might.

[Menkenspiel]

A powerful organization--and in an Emergency, more powerful than the Executive and the Legislature, while independent of the Judiciary. The man at the head of this operation must be trustworthy, indeed, to be the commander of such might.

While the Go-Dubya! love fest is a sweet thing to behold on FR, someday - when a real powergrabbing liberal gets ahold of this power - we'll regret it. What is it (on dispassionate analysis), if not a modern, American-style KGB?

[codebreaker]

What about the NSA are they under the umbrella as well?