Huck says (re the Homeland Security Bill):To tell you the truth, I still don't even know much about it.
I admit that I don't know much about it either. However, I support the general idea of restructuring the government bureacracies so, at least where it comes to security issues, a greater capability for getting information/intelligence into the hands of people who can do something with it is enhanced. Hopefully, this restructuring will make it easier for we the people to identify the responsible parties in government and thus increase their accountability.
What I don't like --
Combine this with the Patriot Act - frankly speaking, the government had the capability, or the tools so-to-speak, to already investigate, sniff-out, and prevent the 9/11 attacks from occurring. Our government failed us, in part because it is made up of a maze of bureaucracies that often work at against one another (the FBI and CIA is the classic example), or a set of bureaucracies that don't do the job they were tasked to do (some don't even come close).
But the failure of the government is not entirely based on the failure of the bureaucracies, the failure lies in their oversight and the legislators we elect to supervise and manage the bureaucracies they create. Our elected leaders failed us miserably with respect to the terror attacks on our country and our national security in general, yet the American people for the most part have given them a pass. So, part of the problem I have with these acts of Congress that are supposed to enhance our security is that they work to dissolve the elected leaders from the accountability and culpability they hold for the jeoprady in which they have placed the country. It's quite typical of politicians to enact any sort of leglislation to give the appearance they are doing something - anything - in a time of crisis or at a time when expedience demands they need the appearance that they are doing their jobs.
I am sure I could find a more eloquent and direct way of getting to the point here...but the more I think about this issue, the more angry I become, and it's tough enough to get off to a good start on a Monday...
Only if you have not considered the contradiction between those who obviously know better and are intelligent, versus their consistency of failure against the measure of chance, along with the contradiction between their behavior and their promises and principles.