(07-11-2019, 07:34 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(07-11-2019, 04:31 PM)USCG_JAG Wrote: Anyone on here care to enlighten a former Coastie on why the hell defunding and/or abolishing the DHS is a good idea? Anyone have an idea of the strategic Snafu that would cause? Where would the Coast Guard fall? Under DOT again?

1. No one was asking for a DHS before 9/11. It's the ultimate knee-jerk of a President who had to make it look like he was doing lots of things.
2. It's a money sink with minimal returns. DOJ upholds the law. HHS works on humanitarian issues. DHS...oversees the Thousands Standing Around and covers for the NSA?

Things worked fine when the USCG flipped between DOT/military. Convince me otherwise.

Have you watched Looming Tower on Hulu? It's a limited series based on a book by the same name and it showed the utter ineptitude of the CIA and FBI running up to 9/11. We all know they don't like to share info as it is and they flat out screwed the pooch on communicating very specific information that could have possibly prevented 9/11, or at least lessened the damage had they found even one of the groups that took down a plane. I think at the time this is what Bush saw and tried to make an agency work toward that never happening again. 

Alas, the government is gonna government and we have yet another money consuming watchdog agency that does pretty much what you say it does.

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