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A homeland mess.(National Security)
A Homeland Mess Eli Lehrer,"The Homeland Security Bureaucracy," The Public Interest, Summer 2004 (thepublicinterest.com)
In a preliminary assessment, TAE associate editor Eli Lehrer finds that the Department of Homeland Security's agencies remain "too limited in scope, too committed to their legacy missions, and too unlikely to change" to have a major effect on homeland security.
Lehrer divides homeland security into three tasks: access control (tasks such as border guard duty and airport baggage inspection), law enforcement, and disaster mitigation. The new department faces serious limitations carrying out these tasks.
Lehrer writes that only about 15 percent of U.S. law enforcement officers work for the federal government, and that only about half of those work for the Department of Homeland Security. The department cannot perform more than a small percentage of the law enforcement tasks by itself and has no control over the way most American law enforcement operates. Even access control duties--where the federal government has near-total jurisdiction over airports and border security--have "a much more federalist tinge than ...
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