Excerpt As it emerges as our country's first national police force, Michael Chertoff's Department of Homeland Security is becoming notorious for abuses of power — and even depraved crimes against children. The school day had ended and the parking lot at Englewood Elementary was full of energetic kids eager to go home when Leander Pickett saw a late model car obstructing the school bus loading zone. Pickett, a teacher's assistant at the Jacksonville, Florida, grade school, strolled over to the car, which had made a wrong turn into an exit lane, and told its occupants they had to move. Pickett's...