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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Homeland Security Hasn't Made Us Safer -- Anne Applebaum, Foreign Policy


A special anniversary report challenging the world's most dangerous thinking.


Hardly anyone has seriously scrutinized either the priorities or the spending patterns of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its junior partner, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), since their hurried creation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Sure, they get criticized plenty. But year in, year out, they continue to grow faster and cost more -- presumably because Americans think they are being protected from terrorism by all that spending. Yet there is no evidence whatsoever that the agencies are making Americans any safer.

Read more ....http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/unconventional_wisdom?page=0%2C2
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