Bush's homeland security setup faces ax

Source: MSNBC

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to scrap the way President Bush oversaw domestic security in the White House and name a former Central Intelligence Agency official to coordinate counterterrorism, people close to the transition said Wednesday.

The plan being discussed would eliminate the independent homeland security adviser’s office and assign those duties to the National Security Council to streamline sometimes overlapping functions. A deputy national security adviser would be charged with overseeing the effort to guard against terrorism and to respond to natural disasters.

Democrats close to the transition said Mr. Obama’s choice for that job was John O. Brennan, a longtime C.I.A. veteran who was the front-runner to head the spy agency until withdrawing in November amid criticism of his views on interrogation and detention policies. His appointment would not require Senate confirmation.
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Mr. Obama has made no final decision about how to structure domestic security in his White House, and advisers plan to wait until his inauguration to conduct a formal review. But many key advisers have publicly advocated folding it into the National Security Council, and those involved in discussions said the only real questions appeared to be how to do that and how to explain it without looking like domestic security was being downgraded as a priority.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28553919/

be banished from our vocabulary and our soil

I know I never want to hear the word "homeland" again.

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"oh sure, joe, you can still be in charge of HLS committee, sure, no problem...snicker... snicker..."

Whose the sucker now joe? you are about to become very irrelevant.

Congress needs to.

And he should ask them to.

then he most certainly does have the constitutional authority to eliminate that department...and he should!!

France.

I hope so. That would be the best news out of the government in a long long time.

all it was was a holding pay check for morons friends and family. in morons* world, failure equals praise and promotion.

some reason - I think it was something like believing he was a journalist.

NYT: Bush's homeland security setup faces ax, January 8, 2009


FEMA needs to stand alone again.

Where is James Lee Witt? We need him to come in and rebuild FEMA so that it actually HELPS people in natural disasters and doesn't send money to Jeb Bush's cronies in Florida in areas unaffected by hurricanes in election years, or offer formaldehyde-laced trailers for disaster victims.


The Coast Guard and the Border Patrol should be restructured, strengthened, and function under their own leadership instead of being folded into a bloated behemoth of Michael Chertoff's imagination.


And, rip out the strip-scanning X-ray machines that so debase the dignity of airline passengers, and, instead, start checking every piece of F*#$ing luggage/cargo that goes into the plane's hold.



Where will Chertoff be going in a couple weeks? George W. Bush just named Chertoff to a five-year term on the Holocaust Memorial Council, along with good buddies chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and top Republican donor Sanford Gottesman.



Meanwhile, the people of Brownsville, Texas will be having their own celebration:


Brownsville prepares to celebrate Chertoff's departure

By Kevin Sieff
January 5, 2009







Good riddance.



12 more days.

the federal government? I'm assuming it's a fed position 'cause the monkey set the f*'ers up there.

Where will Chertoff be going in a couple weeks? George W. Bush just named Chertoff to a five-year term on the Holocaust Memorial Council, along with good buddies chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and top Republican donor Sanford Gottesman.

To do WHAT?

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skeletor remains at the trough.

The President intends to appoint the following individuals to be Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council:

Elliot Abrams, of Virginia, for a five-year term beginning 01/16/09;

Joshua B. Bolten, of the District of Columbia, for a five-year term beginning 01/16/09;

Alan I. Casden, of California, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/11;

Michael Chertoff, of New Jersey, for a five-year term beginning 01/16/09;

other midnight appointments here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/bush-makes-last-minute-appointments/

That whole department just freaked me out in many ways. Homeland - Fatherland with gestapo type tactics and all.

It is a dangerous entity.

And it should repeal the Patriot Acts.

"The cabinet Department of Homeland Security would not be affected by any of these moves."

Strategic Hazard Intervention, Enforcement Logistics Directorate. And get Col Nick Fury to head it up.