[CWOJackson]

Close but no cigar.

Yes, Washington is awash in multiple federal agencies. You name it and every letter of the alphabet has probably been used at least once if not dozens of times. And just like we found out when our troops went into Grenada, none of them have the capability of talking to each other.

This position actually makes sense, much sense. It will coordinate the intelligence and resources of all those agencies the otherwise would not happen. For once added bureaucracy makes some sense.

[leadpenny]

JD is dead on with this one. The answer is not more layers of federal bureaucracy. We need a streamlining of agencies that are involved in what we now call 'homeland defense.' Unless and until organizations such as FBI, FEMA, ATF, INS, Coast Guard and National Guard Bureau in peacetime, and others are pulled out by the roots (budget and all) from their current departments and placed directly under the Department of Home Land Defense, we will continue to suffer the 'finger-pointing' confusion that now exists.