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Profiting from panic.(Department of Homeland Security)(Brief article)
The Department of Homeland Security may be a dubious instrument to protect the public from terrorism and similar calamities, but it's proving to be immensely profitable to its architects.
"Dozens of members of the Bush administration's domestic security team, assembled after the 2001 terrorist attacks, are now collecting bigger paychecks in different roles: working on behalf of companies that sell domestic security products, many directly to the federal agencies the officials helped run," reported the June 18 New York Times.
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