Homeland (job) Security

A number of bloggers have commented on the recent story about GAO investigators smuggling radioactive material into the US. While disturbing, I am not so sure that this particular incident can be used to tar-and-feather The Regime (as deserving of such treatment as it is). Such a slip could happen under any administration. The real management issue is, how likely is it to happen (again)?

So here's a better, related case. In Eric Umansky's survey of newspapers for March 29 in Slate, we read:

USAT notes that the Department of Homeland Security is doing a fine job of ... losing its managers. The department is "hemorrhaging on the front lines and higher up," said one analyst. Among the currently open spots are the heads of the divisions for cyber-security, for technology, and for disaster response. Surveys have consistently ranked the department among the worst to work at.

Now I feel better! Get out the tar and the feathers . . . and a little cesium-137. The one federal agency that The Regime can take sole credit for, one that is critical to the Global War on Terror which justifies the Regime's existence (and its lawbreaking and deceit and killing and torture), and it can't even keep employees.