Via WaPo: Infighting Cited at Homeland Security.
So, you take disparate parts of the federal government from various other departments, give them a monumental task and then there’s in-fighting?!? Say it ain’t so!
Seriously, the list of problems in the article are pure bureaucratic politics and shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody. That fact may not excuse the problems, or make us all feel safer, but it is nonetheless true.
Update: Betsy Newmark notes that this piece is perfect for her unit on bureaucracies. It appears she wasn’t too shocked by the story either.