From the get go, the title "Homeland Security" smacked of Germany in 1939 or the Soviet Union in 1960.
When I first heard the proposed title for the new department I simply shook my head and thought: Some one in DC has waaaay too much time on their hands!.
After the queerly titled Patriot Act was unveiled and the DHS reorganization was announced, my suspicions were confirmed.
One of Bush's biggest mistakes was giving into political pressure and creating this joke of a department. 9/11 happened because unneccessary bureauocracy got in the way of the CIA and FBI's ability to do their job thank to Clinton's justice department and 30 years of weakening our intelligence apparatus. Adding the DHS only exasperated the problem. Putting a federal judge at the head of this department was a decision worthy of the bad decision that originally led to its creation.